diff --git a/kexec-tools-ppc64-purgatory-disabling-gcc-stack-protection.patch b/kexec-tools-ppc64-purgatory-disabling-gcc-stack-protection.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..269a6d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kexec-tools-ppc64-purgatory-disabling-gcc-stack-protection.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:55:53 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] ppc64/purgatory: Disabling GCC's stack protection
+
+Some Linux distributions, like Suse, are turning on the GCC's stack
+protection mechanism by default (-fstack-protector). When building the
+purgatory with this option, this leads to link issues that are revealed at
+runtime when the purgatory is loaded because symbols like __stack_chk_fail
+are unresolved.
+
+This patch forces this stack protection mechanism to be turned off when
+building the purgatory on ppc64 BE and LE.
+
+Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+---
+ purgatory/arch/ppc64/Makefile |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/purgatory/arch/ppc64/Makefile b/purgatory/arch/ppc64/Makefile
+index 31076e9..712e2b1 100644
+--- a/purgatory/arch/ppc64/Makefile
++++ b/purgatory/arch/ppc64/Makefile
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ppc64_PURGATORY_SRCS += purgatory/arch/ppc64/console-ppc64.c
+ ppc64_PURGATORY_SRCS += purgatory/arch/ppc64/crashdump_backup.c
+ ppc64_PURGATORY_SRCS += purgatory/arch/ppc64/misc.S
+ 
+-ppc64_PURGATORY_EXTRA_CFLAGS += -m64 -msoft-float
++ppc64_PURGATORY_EXTRA_CFLAGS += -m64 -msoft-float -fno-stack-protector
+ ppc64_PURGATORY_EXTRA_ASFLAGS += -m64
+ ifeq ($(SUBARCH),BE)
+ 	ppc64_PURGATORY_EXTRA_LDFLAGS += -melf64ppc
diff --git a/kexec-tools-zero-efi-info.patch b/kexec-tools-zero-efi-info.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d2b2595
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kexec-tools-zero-efi-info.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+From: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
+Subject: Disable erroneous efi memory descriptor version message 
+References: bnc#867785c5
+Upstream: not yet
+ 
+On non-EFI systems, efi_info section of boot_params is zero filled resulting 
+in an erroneous message from kexec regarding "efi memory descriptor" version.
+
+Caused by commit: e1ffc9e9a0769e1f54185003102e9bec428b84e8 "Passing efi related 
+data via setup_data"
+
+# od -j 448 -N 32 -v -x /sys/kernel/boot_params/data 
+0000700 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
+0000720 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
+0000740
+
+# kexec -l --reuse-cmdline --initrd=/boot/initrd-`uname -r` /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
+efi memory descriptor version 0 is not supported!
+
+---
+ kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c |   14 +++++++++++---
+ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
++++ b/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
+@@ -687,17 +687,25 @@ static void setup_efi_info(struct kexec_
+ 	ret = get_bootparam(&real_mode->efi_info, offset, 32);
+ 	if (ret)
+ 		return;
++	if (((struct efi_info *)real_mode->efi_info)->efi_memmap_size == 0)
++		/* zero filled efi_info */
++		goto out;
+ 	desc_version = get_efi_mem_desc_version(real_mode);
+ 	if (desc_version != 1) {
+ 		fprintf(stderr,
+ 			"efi memory descriptor version %d is not supported!\n",
+ 			desc_version);
+-		memset(&real_mode->efi_info, 0, 32);
+-		return;
++		goto out;
+ 	}
+ 	ret = setup_efi_data(info, real_mode);
+ 	if (ret)
+-		memset(&real_mode->efi_info, 0, 32);
++		goto out;
++
++	return;
++
++out:
++	memset(&real_mode->efi_info, 0, 32);
++	return;
+ }
+ 
+ void setup_linux_system_parameters(struct kexec_info *info,
diff --git a/kexec-tools.changes b/kexec-tools.changes
index 47e342f..20019ae 100644
--- a/kexec-tools.changes
+++ b/kexec-tools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar 18 16:45:14 UTC 2014 - tonyj@suse.com
+
+- Disable stack protector for ppc64le (bnc#869161)
+- Disable erroneous (efi memory descriptor version" message (bnc#867785c5)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Feb  6 01:14:24 UTC 2014 - tonyj@suse.com
 
diff --git a/kexec-tools.spec b/kexec-tools.spec
index e75323e..1874c60 100644
--- a/kexec-tools.spec
+++ b/kexec-tools.spec
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ Patch4:         %{name}-enable-aarch64.patch
 Patch5:         %{name}-xen-e820-redefinition.patch
 Patch6:         %{name}-enable-aarch64-fixup.patch
 Patch7:         %{name}-i386-bzimage_efi.patch
+Patch8:         %{name}-ppc64-purgatory-disabling-gcc-stack-protection.patch
+Patch9:         %{name}-zero-efi-info.patch
 Url:            ftp://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kexec/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 #!BuildIgnore:  fop
@@ -67,12 +69,14 @@ the loaded kernel after it panics.
 %patch5 -p1
 %patch6 -p1
 %patch7 -p1
+%patch8 -p1
+%patch9 -p1
 
 %build
 # disable as-needed
 export SUSE_ASNEEDED=0
 %{?suse_update_config -f}
-%ifarch ia64
+%ifarch ia64 ppc64le
 RPM_OPT_FLAGS=$(echo $RPM_OPT_FLAGS | sed -e 's/-fstack-protector//')
 %endif
 autoreconf -f