{
        DBG(" -> setup_system()\n");
 
-       /* Apply CPUs-specific fixups to kernel text (nop out sections
-        * not relevant to this CPU)
+       /* Apply the CPUs-specific and firmware specific fixups to kernel
+        * text (nop out sections not relevant to this CPU or this firmware)
         */
        do_feature_fixups(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features,
                          &__start___ftr_fixup, &__stop___ftr_fixup);
+       do_feature_fixups(powerpc_firmware_features,
+                         &__start___fw_ftr_fixup, &__stop___fw_ftr_fixup);
 
        /*
         * Unflatten the device-tree passed by prom_init or kexec
        if (ppc_md.init_early)
                ppc_md.init_early();
 
-       /* Apply firmware specific fixups to kernel text (nop out
-        * sections not relevant to this firmware)
-        */
-       do_feature_fixups(powerpc_firmware_features,
-                         &__start___fw_ftr_fixup, &__stop___fw_ftr_fixup);
-
        /*
         * We can discover serial ports now since the above did setup the
         * hash table management for us, thus ioremap works. We do that early