--- 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 --sort-section=name
 KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE		+= -mlong-calls