diff --git a/board/freescale/mx31ads/config.mk b/board/freescale/mx31ads/config.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 0131edfbe9a651f510cb781d7c6cd3d673f8d4cc..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/board/freescale/mx31ads/config.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE = 0x87f00000
diff --git a/board/freescale/mx31ads/mx31ads.c b/board/freescale/mx31ads/mx31ads.c
index a298e0530f52b4707d9c39f11bc131bcf4fc0fd0..9bf9c18fd8f0c0451885886d0052a98f8c250d29 100644
--- a/board/freescale/mx31ads/mx31ads.c
+++ b/board/freescale/mx31ads/mx31ads.c
@@ -28,15 +28,21 @@
 
 DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
 
-int dram_init (void)
+int dram_init(void)
+{
+	/* dram_init must store complete ramsize in gd->ram_size */
+	gd->ram_size = get_ram_size((volatile void *)PHYS_SDRAM_1,
+				PHYS_SDRAM_1_SIZE);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void dram_init_banksize(void)
 {
 	gd->bd->bi_dram[0].start = PHYS_SDRAM_1;
 	gd->bd->bi_dram[0].size = PHYS_SDRAM_1_SIZE;
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
-int board_init (void)
+int board_early_init_f(void)
 {
 	int i;
 
@@ -94,6 +100,11 @@ int board_init (void)
 	readb(CS4_BASE + 8);
 	readb(CS4_BASE + 7);
 
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int board_init(void)
+{
 	gd->bd->bi_arch_number = MACH_TYPE_MX31ADS;	/* board id for linux */
 	gd->bd->bi_boot_params = 0x80000100;	/* adress of boot parameters */
 
diff --git a/board/freescale/mx31ads/u-boot.lds b/board/freescale/mx31ads/u-boot.lds
index b081b219466dde4aae5ddea8ac52ffad159bf77f..79eb7aca387b10a66281f5c51a71508237e4a0ec 100644
--- a/board/freescale/mx31ads/u-boot.lds
+++ b/board/freescale/mx31ads/u-boot.lds
@@ -48,23 +48,47 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	  *(.text)
 	}
-
 	. = ALIGN(4);
-	.rodata : { *(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(SORT_BY_NAME(.rodata*))) }
+	.rodata : { *(.rodata) }
 
 	. = ALIGN(4);
-	.data : { *(.data) }
+	.data : {
+		*(.data)
+	}
 
 	. = ALIGN(4);
-	.got : { *(.got) }
-
-	. = .;
 	__u_boot_cmd_start = .;
 	.u_boot_cmd : { *(.u_boot_cmd) }
 	__u_boot_cmd_end = .;
 
 	. = ALIGN(4);
-	__bss_start = .;
-	.bss : { *(.bss) . = ALIGN(4); }
-	__bss_end__ = .;
+
+	.rel.dyn : {
+		__rel_dyn_start = .;
+		*(.rel*)
+		__rel_dyn_end = .;
+	}
+
+	.dynsym : {
+		__dynsym_start = .;
+		*(.dynsym)
+	}
+
+	_end = .;
+
+	.bss __rel_dyn_start (OVERLAY) : {
+		__bss_start = .;
+		*(.bss)
+		 . = ALIGN(4);
+		__bss_end__ = .;
+	}
+
+	/DISCARD/ : { *(.bss*) }
+	/DISCARD/ : { *(.dynstr*) }
+	/DISCARD/ : { *(.dynsym*) }
+	/DISCARD/ : { *(.dynamic*) }
+	/DISCARD/ : { *(.hash*) }
+	/DISCARD/ : { *(.plt*) }
+	/DISCARD/ : { *(.interp*) }
+	/DISCARD/ : { *(.gnu*) }
 }
diff --git a/include/configs/mx31ads.h b/include/configs/mx31ads.h
index 5ea59b4ab7a79299322f72066c251710d62681dc..6d6c1bd267ddb08caa05a71164381aaac5e572fa 100644
--- a/include/configs/mx31ads.h
+++ b/include/configs/mx31ads.h
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
 #define CONFIG_DISPLAY_CPUINFO
 #define CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
 
+#define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE		0xA0000000
+
 /*
  * Disabled for now due to build problems under Debian and a significant increase
  * in the final file size: 144260 vs. 109536 Bytes.
@@ -160,6 +162,15 @@
 #define CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS	1
 #define PHYS_SDRAM_1		CSD0_BASE
 #define PHYS_SDRAM_1_SIZE	(128 * 1024 * 1024)
+#define CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F
+
+#define CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE		PHYS_SDRAM_1
+#define CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR	IRAM_BASE_ADDR
+#define CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE	IRAM_SIZE
+#define CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET	(CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE - \
+						GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE)
+#define CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR	(CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR + \
+						CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET)
 
 /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  * FLASH and environment organization