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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
index af04cea82b94..352d7de24018 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ ld_version()
gsub(".*version ", "");
gsub("-.*", "");
split($1,a, ".");
+ if( length(a[3]) == "8" )
+ # a[3] is probably a date of format yyyymmdd used for release snapshots. We
+ # can assume it to be zero as it does not signify a new version as such.
+ a[3] = 0;
print a[1]*100000000 + a[2]*1000000 + a[3]*10000;
exit
}'