diff --git a/README b/README
index f704eb3780..31e08fc748 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3752,6 +3752,9 @@ Configuration Settings:
 		Pre-relocation malloc() is only supported on sandbox
 		at present but is fairly easy to enable for other archs.
 
+		Pre-relocation malloc() is only supported on ARM at present
+		but is fairly easy to enable for other archs.
+
 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
 		Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
 		uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/config.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/config.h
index d3433dafd9..5f2a5f4ea9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/config.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/config.h
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_CONFIG_H_
 #define _ASM_CONFIG_H_
 
+#ifdef __aarch64__
 #define CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_GLOBAL_DATA
+#endif
 
 #define CONFIG_LMB
 #define CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S b/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
index dfc2de9a61..29cdad0f70 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
@@ -67,10 +67,22 @@ ENTRY(_main)
 	ldr	sp, =(CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR)
 #endif
 	bic	sp, sp, #7	/* 8-byte alignment for ABI compliance */
+	mov	r2, sp
 	sub	sp, sp, #GD_SIZE	/* allocate one GD above SP */
 	bic	sp, sp, #7	/* 8-byte alignment for ABI compliance */
 	mov	r9, sp		/* GD is above SP */
+	mov	r1, sp
 	mov	r0, #0
+clr_gd:
+	cmp	r1, r2			/* while not at end of GD */
+	strlo	r0, [r1]		/* clear 32-bit GD word */
+	addlo	r1, r1, #4		/* move to next */
+	blo	clr_gd
+#if defined(CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN) && !defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD)
+	sub	sp, sp, #CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
+	str	sp, [r9, #GD_MALLOC_BASE]
+#endif
+	/* mov r0, #0 not needed due to above code */
 	bl	board_init_f
 
 #if ! defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD)