diff --git a/arch/ppc64/boot/Makefile b/arch/ppc64/boot/Makefile
index d3e1d6af920365810397b9baf714aba0beab1ba0..683b2d43c15fe2facb4a7a1d7f388f260481c3a0 100644
--- a/arch/ppc64/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/ppc64/boot/Makefile
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ obj-sec = $(foreach section, $(1), $(patsubst %,$(obj)/kernel-%.o, $(section)))
 src-sec = $(foreach section, $(1), $(patsubst %,$(obj)/kernel-%.c, $(section)))
 gz-sec  = $(foreach section, $(1), $(patsubst %,$(obj)/kernel-%.gz, $(section)))
 
-hostprogs-y		:= piggy addnote addRamDisk
+hostprogs-y		:= addnote addRamDisk
 targets 		+= zImage zImage.initrd imagesize.c \
 			   $(patsubst $(obj)/%,%, $(call obj-sec, $(required) $(initrd))) \
 			   $(patsubst $(obj)/%,%, $(call src-sec, $(required) $(initrd))) \
@@ -78,9 +78,6 @@ addsection = $(CROSS32OBJCOPY) $(1) \
 quiet_cmd_addnote = ADDNOTE $@ 
       cmd_addnote = $(CROSS32LD) $(BOOTLFLAGS) -o $@ $(obj-boot) && $(obj)/addnote $@
 
-quiet_cmd_piggy = PIGGY   $@
-      cmd_piggy = $(obj)/piggyback $(@:.o=) < $< | $(CROSS32AS) -o $@
-
 $(call gz-sec, $(required)): $(obj)/kernel-%.gz: % FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,gzip)
 
diff --git a/arch/ppc64/boot/piggyback.c b/arch/ppc64/boot/piggyback.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 235c7a87269c00f4be7243dc1d7804e4defb958d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/arch/ppc64/boot/piggyback.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2001 IBM Corp 
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
- * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- */
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <unistd.h>
-#include <string.h>
-
-extern long ce_exec_config[];
-
-int main(int argc, char *argv[])
-{
-	int i, cnt, pos, len;
-	unsigned int cksum, val;
-	unsigned char *lp;
-	unsigned char buf[8192];
-	char *varname;
-	if (argc != 2)
-	{
-		fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s name <in-file >out-file\n",
-			argv[0]);
-		exit(1);
-	}
-
-	varname = strrchr(argv[1], '/');
-	if (varname)
-		varname++;
-	else
-		varname = argv[1];
-
-	fprintf(stdout, "#\n");
-	fprintf(stdout, "# Miscellaneous data structures:\n");
-	fprintf(stdout, "# WARNING - this file is automatically generated!\n");
-	fprintf(stdout, "#\n");
-	fprintf(stdout, "\n");
-	fprintf(stdout, "\t.data\n");
-	fprintf(stdout, "\t.globl %s_data\n", varname);
-	fprintf(stdout, "%s_data:\n", varname);
-	pos = 0;
-	cksum = 0;
-	while ((len = read(0, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0)
-	{
-		cnt = 0;
-		lp = (unsigned char *)buf;
-		len = (len + 3) & ~3;  /* Round up to longwords */
-		for (i = 0;  i < len;  i += 4)
-		{
-			if (cnt == 0)
-			{
-				fprintf(stdout, "\t.long\t");
-			}
-			fprintf(stdout, "0x%02X%02X%02X%02X", lp[0], lp[1], lp[2], lp[3]);
-			val = *(unsigned long *)lp;
-			cksum ^= val;
-			lp += 4;
-			if (++cnt == 4)
-			{
-				cnt = 0;
-				fprintf(stdout, " # %x \n", pos+i-12);
-				fflush(stdout);
-			} else
-			{
-				fprintf(stdout, ",");
-			}
-		}
-		if (cnt)
-		{
-			fprintf(stdout, "0\n");
-		}
-		pos += len;
-	}
-	fprintf(stdout, "\t.globl %s_len\n", varname);
-	fprintf(stdout, "%s_len:\t.long\t0x%x\n", varname, pos);
-	fflush(stdout);
-	fclose(stdout);
-	fprintf(stderr, "cksum = %x\n", cksum);
-	exit(0);
-}
-