--- /dev/null
+--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
++++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
+@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ all-$(CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT)+= vmlin
+ # machines may also. Since BFD is incredibly buggy with respect to
+ # crossformat linking we rely on the elf2ecoff tool for format conversion.
+ #
+-cflags-y += -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe
++cflags-y += -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe -mno-branch-likely
+ cflags-y += -msoft-float
+ LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections
+ KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE += -mlong-calls