diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 38f3b7e47ec5efd190018de0d9bba1d2ef5b4011..2c69c43ba68ec339379f87d6e9ed61a0710f5b79 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ config PPC
 	select OLD_SIGACTION if PPC32
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
 
+config GENERIC_CSUM
+	def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+
 config EARLY_PRINTK
 	bool
 	default y
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/checksum.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/checksum.h
index ce0c28495f9a0416450a33a4ceee4b3a33be45c2..8251a3ba870f8cfd27a5b1c84c794ac719e34ace 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/checksum.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/checksum.h
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
  * which always checksum on 4 octet boundaries.  ihl is the number
  * of 32-bit words and is always >= 5.
  */
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CSUM
+#include <asm-generic/checksum.h>
+#else
 extern __sum16 ip_fast_csum(const void *iph, unsigned int ihl);
 
 /*
@@ -123,5 +126,7 @@ static inline __wsum csum_tcpudp_nofold(__be32 saddr, __be32 daddr,
 	return sum;
 #endif
 }
+
+#endif
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
index 21646dbe1bb3c7a48df59ba14dea18431abe12be..3b485c5cff10c4f48938a043aab513596a3b35d5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
@@ -79,10 +79,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strlen);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcmp);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncmp);
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_CSUM
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(csum_partial);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(csum_partial_copy_generic);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip_fast_csum);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(csum_tcpudp_magic);
+#endif
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_tofrom_user);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__clear_user);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
index 4504332766990147fdbfef302baac7919ec179fa..33ab26112123cb8b0f33502e0adfbbc14528984c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
@@ -10,15 +10,20 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_code-patching.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_feature-fixups.o = -pg
 
 obj-y			:= string.o alloc.o \
-			   checksum_$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE).o crtsavres.o
+			   crtsavres.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PPC32)	+= div64.o copy_32.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM)	+= devres.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= copypage_64.o copyuser_64.o \
 			   memcpy_64.o usercopy_64.o mem_64.o string.o \
-			   checksum_wrappers_64.o hweight_64.o \
+			   hweight_64.o \
 			   copyuser_power7.o string_64.o copypage_power7.o \
 			   memcpy_power7.o
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_GENERIC_CSUM),)
+obj-y			+= checksum_$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE).o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= checksum_wrappers_64.o
+endif
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_PPC_EMULATE_SSTEP)	+= sstep.o ldstfp.o
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_PPC64),y)