diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
index 35ace40d9fc2..d0b5f202c49c 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
@@ -571,7 +571,18 @@ ps3)
         count=$overlay_size bs=1
 
     odir="$(dirname "$ofile.bin")"
-    rm -f "$odir/otheros.bld"
-    gzip -n --force -9 --stdout "$ofile.bin" > "$odir/otheros.bld"
+
+    # The ps3's flash loader has a size limit of 16 MiB for the uncompressed
+    # image.  If a compressed image that exceeded this limit is written to
+    # flash the loader will decompress that image until the 16 MiB limit is
+    # reached, then enter the system reset vector of the partially decompressed
+    # image.  No warning is issued.
+    rm -f "$odir"/{otheros,otheros-too-big}.bld
+    size=$(${CROSS}nm --no-sort --radix=d "$ofile" | egrep ' _end$' | cut -d' ' -f1)
+    bld="otheros.bld"
+    if [ $size -gt $((0x1000000)) ]; then
+        bld="otheros-too-big.bld"
+    fi
+    gzip -n --force -9 --stdout "$ofile.bin" > "$odir/$bld"
     ;;
 esac