diff --git a/kexec-tools-remove-duplicate-ramdisk-definition.patch b/kexec-tools-remove-duplicate-ramdisk-definition.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0be72c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kexec-tools-remove-duplicate-ramdisk-definition.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
+Subject: Remove duplicate definition of ramdisk
+Upstream: not yet, sent on 2021-04-26
+
+The ramdisk variable is defined in kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c. This
+other definition is not needed and breaks build with -fno-common.
+
+Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
+---
+ kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-elf-ppc.c |    1 -
+ 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-elf-ppc.c
++++ b/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-elf-ppc.c
+@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
+ static const int probe_debug = 0;
+ 
+ unsigned char reuse_initrd;
+-const char *ramdisk;
+ int create_flatten_tree(struct kexec_info *, unsigned char **, unsigned long *,
+ 			char *);
+ 
diff --git a/kexec-tools.changes b/kexec-tools.changes
index b66ad58..78b9c8a 100644
--- a/kexec-tools.changes
+++ b/kexec-tools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Apr 26 09:35:21 UTC 2021 - Petr Tesařík <ptesarik@suse.com>
+
+- kexec-tools-remove-duplicate-ramdisk-definition.patch:
+  Remove duplicate definition of ramdisk (fix ppc build).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Apr 26 08:07:47 UTC 2021 - Petr Tesařík <ptesarik@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/kexec-tools.spec b/kexec-tools.spec
index 21c8137..370b8e3 100644
--- a/kexec-tools.spec
+++ b/kexec-tools.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Patch3:         %{name}-disable-test.patch
 Patch4:         %{name}-vmcoreinfo-in-xen.patch
 Patch9:         %{name}-video-capability.patch
 Patch10:        %{name}-SYS_getrandom.patch
+Patch11:        %{name}-remove-duplicate-ramdisk-definition.patch
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  systemd-rpm-macros