diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index e07c432c731ff9a516fe8b23228af0fe6fa1d29a..9cf7b34f2db0c29273ca58a28b0c5683a273a0ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1496,6 +1496,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 				Use with caution as certain devices share
 				address decoders between ROMs and other
 				resources.
+		norom		[X86-32,X86_64] Do not assign address space to
+				expansion ROMs that do not already have
+				BIOS assigned address ranges.
 		irqmask=0xMMMM	[X86-32] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
 				assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
 				make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/common.c b/arch/x86/pci/common.c
index 6e64aaf00d1dd9473fff8cfd0e6e09074a31443c..3a5261bdff5d42dd04384f75556618cb5ec5b4ad 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/common.c
@@ -121,6 +121,21 @@ void __init dmi_check_skip_isa_align(void)
 	dmi_check_system(can_skip_pciprobe_dmi_table);
 }
 
+static void __devinit pcibios_fixup_device_resources(struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
+	struct resource *rom_r = &dev->resource[PCI_ROM_RESOURCE];
+
+	if (pci_probe & PCI_NOASSIGN_ROMS) {
+		if (rom_r->parent)
+			return;
+		if (rom_r->start) {
+			/* we deal with BIOS assigned ROM later */
+			return;
+		}
+		rom_r->start = rom_r->end = rom_r->flags = 0;
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  *  Called after each bus is probed, but before its children
  *  are examined.
@@ -128,7 +143,11 @@ void __init dmi_check_skip_isa_align(void)
 
 void __devinit  pcibios_fixup_bus(struct pci_bus *b)
 {
+	struct pci_dev *dev;
+
 	pci_read_bridge_bases(b);
+	list_for_each_entry(dev, &b->devices, bus_list)
+		pcibios_fixup_device_resources(dev);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -483,6 +502,9 @@ char * __devinit  pcibios_setup(char *str)
 	else if (!strcmp(str, "rom")) {
 		pci_probe |= PCI_ASSIGN_ROMS;
 		return NULL;
+	} else if (!strcmp(str, "norom")) {
+		pci_probe |= PCI_NOASSIGN_ROMS;
+		return NULL;
 	} else if (!strcmp(str, "assign-busses")) {
 		pci_probe |= PCI_ASSIGN_ALL_BUSSES;
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/pci.h b/arch/x86/pci/pci.h
index 720c4c55453462d78770d03506c26ae45d6d2edd..291dafec07b703026e500ab07d7b1e9645d217a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/pci.h
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/pci.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #define PCI_CAN_SKIP_ISA_ALIGN	0x8000
 #define PCI_USE__CRS		0x10000
 #define PCI_CHECK_ENABLE_AMD_MMCONF	0x20000
+#define PCI_NOASSIGN_ROMS	0x40000
 
 extern unsigned int pci_probe;
 extern unsigned long pirq_table_addr;