diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
index f752e6f7cfbe2656ab0ded7f6619b22339e973ae..ab68d0ee7725861d827d34c4f05ed08001e13274 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ extern int machine_check_e500mc(struct pt_regs *regs);
 extern int machine_check_e500(struct pt_regs *regs);
 extern int machine_check_e200(struct pt_regs *regs);
 extern int machine_check_47x(struct pt_regs *regs);
+int machine_check_8xx(struct pt_regs *regs);
 
 extern void cpu_down_flush_e500v2(void);
 extern void cpu_down_flush_e500mc(void);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
index 6c4646ac9234dafb186ca8a5360a3530b1e2940b..6a82ef039c509746f5afa66ebc286fa5da429ed3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
@@ -1248,6 +1248,7 @@ static struct cpu_spec __initdata cpu_specs[] = {
 		.mmu_features		= MMU_FTR_TYPE_8xx,
 		.icache_bsize		= 16,
 		.dcache_bsize		= 16,
+		.machine_check		= machine_check_8xx,
 		.platform		= "ppc823",
 	},
 #endif /* CONFIG_8xx */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index 137b1371cce8d172bf157659d845705dfb1b3aaa..e493062937b00e10b15bc82c1ca84e8ffc73776f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -667,6 +667,31 @@ int machine_check_e200(struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+#elif defined(CONFIG_PPC_8xx)
+int machine_check_8xx(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	unsigned long reason = get_mc_reason(regs);
+
+	pr_err("Machine check in kernel mode.\n");
+	pr_err("Caused by (from SRR1=%lx): ", reason);
+	if (reason & 0x40000000)
+		pr_err("Fetch error at address %lx\n", regs->nip);
+	else
+		pr_err("Data access error at address %lx\n", regs->dar);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PCI
+	/* the qspan pci read routines can cause machine checks -- Cort
+	 *
+	 * yuck !!! that totally needs to go away ! There are better ways
+	 * to deal with that than having a wart in the mcheck handler.
+	 * -- BenH
+	 */
+	bad_page_fault(regs, regs->dar, SIGBUS);
+	return 1;
+#else
+	return 0;
+#endif
+}
 #else
 int machine_check_generic(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
@@ -726,17 +751,6 @@ void machine_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	if (recover > 0)
 		goto bail;
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_8xx) && defined(CONFIG_PCI)
-	/* the qspan pci read routines can cause machine checks -- Cort
-	 *
-	 * yuck !!! that totally needs to go away ! There are better ways
-	 * to deal with that than having a wart in the mcheck handler.
-	 * -- BenH
-	 */
-	bad_page_fault(regs, regs->dar, SIGBUS);
-	goto bail;
-#endif
-
 	if (debugger_fault_handler(regs))
 		goto bail;