diff --git a/arch/sparc64/mm/init.c b/arch/sparc64/mm/init.c
index f37078d..21e9267 100644
--- a/arch/sparc64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/mm/init.c
@@ -883,6 +883,37 @@
 	}
 }
 
+static void __init find_ramdisk(unsigned long phys_base)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
+	if (sparc_ramdisk_image || sparc_ramdisk_image64) {
+		unsigned long ramdisk_image;
+
+		/* Older versions of the bootloader only supported a
+		 * 32-bit physical address for the ramdisk image
+		 * location, stored at sparc_ramdisk_image.  Newer
+		 * SILO versions set sparc_ramdisk_image to zero and
+		 * provide a full 64-bit physical address at
+		 * sparc_ramdisk_image64.
+		 */
+		ramdisk_image = sparc_ramdisk_image;
+		if (!ramdisk_image)
+			ramdisk_image = sparc_ramdisk_image64;
+
+		/* Another bootloader quirk.  The bootloader normalizes
+		 * the physical address to KERNBASE, so we have to
+		 * factor that back out and add in the lowest valid
+		 * physical page address to get the true physical address.
+		 */
+		ramdisk_image -= KERNBASE;
+		ramdisk_image += phys_base;
+
+		initrd_start = ramdisk_image;
+		initrd_end = ramdisk_image + sparc_ramdisk_size;
+	}
+#endif
+}
+
 /* About pages_avail, this is the value we will use to calculate
  * the zholes_size[] argument given to free_area_init_node().  The
  * page allocator uses this to calculate nr_kernel_pages,
@@ -912,30 +943,6 @@
 		bytes_avail += pavail[i].reg_size;
 	}
 
-	/* Determine the location of the initial ramdisk before trying
-	 * to honor the "mem=xxx" command line argument.  We must know
-	 * where the kernel image and the ramdisk image are so that we
-	 * do not trim those two areas from the physical memory map.
-	 */
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
-	/* Now have to check initial ramdisk, so that bootmap does not overwrite it */
-	if (sparc_ramdisk_image || sparc_ramdisk_image64) {
-		unsigned long ramdisk_image = sparc_ramdisk_image ?
-			sparc_ramdisk_image : sparc_ramdisk_image64;
-		ramdisk_image -= KERNBASE;
-		initrd_start = ramdisk_image + phys_base;
-		initrd_end = initrd_start + sparc_ramdisk_size;
-		if (initrd_end > end_of_phys_memory) {
-			printk(KERN_CRIT "initrd extends beyond end of memory "
-		                 	 "(0x%016lx > 0x%016lx)\ndisabling initrd\n",
-			       initrd_end, end_of_phys_memory);
-			initrd_start = 0;
-			initrd_end = 0;
-		}
-	}
-#endif	
-
 	if (cmdline_memory_size &&
 	    bytes_avail > cmdline_memory_size)
 		trim_pavail(&bytes_avail,
@@ -1337,6 +1344,8 @@
 	for (i = 0; i < pavail_ents; i++)
 		phys_base = min(phys_base, pavail[i].phys_addr);
 
+	find_ramdisk(phys_base);
+
 	set_bit(0, mmu_context_bmap);
 
 	shift = kern_base + PAGE_OFFSET - ((unsigned long)KERNBASE);