diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 53faa9063a035be790c3aef7c5f32c4f48eb8025..541944894734caea19e9e125d01497cb431f9a65 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -79,16 +79,13 @@ endif
 EXTRA_CFLAGS  := -fpic -fno-builtin
 EXTRA_AFLAGS  := -Wa,-march=all
 
-# Supply ZRELADDR, INITRD_PHYS and PARAMS_PHYS to the decompressor via
-# linker symbols.  We only define initrd_phys and params_phys if the
-# machine class defined the corresponding makefile variable.
+# Supply ZRELADDR and PARAMS_PHYS to the decompressor via linker symbols.  We
+# only define params_phys if the machine class defined the corresponding
+# makefile variable.
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --defsym zreladdr=$(ZRELADDR)
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y)
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8
 endif
-ifneq ($(INITRD_PHYS),)
-LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --defsym initrd_phys=$(INITRD_PHYS)
-endif
 ifneq ($(PARAMS_PHYS),)
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --defsym params_phys=$(PARAMS_PHYS)
 endif