diff --git a/arch/powerpc/tools/unrel_branch_check.sh b/arch/powerpc/tools/unrel_branch_check.sh
index 0369eb2e7e4b..8301efee1e6c 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/tools/unrel_branch_check.sh
+++ b/arch/powerpc/tools/unrel_branch_check.sh
@@ -18,12 +18,16 @@ if [ "$end_intr" = "0x" ]; then
 	exit 0
 fi
 
-$objdump -R -D --no-show-raw-insn --start-address="$kstart" --stop-address="$end_intr" "$vmlinux" |
+# we know that there is a correct branch to
+# __start_initialization_multiplatform, so find its address
+# so we can exclude it.
+sim=0x$($nm -p "$vmlinux" |
+	sed -E -n '/\s+[[:alpha:]]\s+__start_initialization_multiplatform\s*$/{s///p;q}')
+
+$objdump -D --no-show-raw-insn --start-address="$kstart" --stop-address="$end_intr" "$vmlinux" |
 sed -E -n '
 # match lines that start with a kernel address
 /^c[0-9a-f]*:\s*b/ {
-	# drop a target that we do not care about
-	/\<__start_initialization_multiplatform>/d
 	# drop branches via ctr or lr
 	/\<b.?.?(ct|l)r/d
 	# cope with some differences between Clang and GNU objdumps
@@ -33,14 +37,34 @@ sed -E -n '
 	s/\s0x/ /
 	s/://
 	# format for the loop below
-	s/^(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s*(\S*).*$/\1:\2:0x\3:\4/
+	s/^(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s*(\S*).*$/\1:\2:\3:\4/
 	# strip out condition registers
-	s/:0xcr[0-7],/:0x/
+	s/:cr[0-7],/:/
 	p
 }' | {
 
 all_good=true
 while IFS=: read -r from branch to sym; do
+	case "$to" in
+	c*)	to="0x$to"
+		;;
+	.+*)
+		to=${to#.+}
+		if [ "$branch" = 'b' ]; then
+			if (( to >= 0x2000000 )); then
+				to=$(( to - 0x4000000 ))
+			fi
+		elif (( to >= 0x8000 )); then
+			to=$(( to - 0x10000 ))
+		fi
+		printf -v to '0x%x' $(( "0x$from" + to ))
+		;;
+	*)	printf 'Unkown branch format\n'
+		;;
+	esac
+	if [ "$to" = "$sim" ]; then
+		continue
+	fi
 	if (( to > end_intr )); then
 		if $all_good; then
 			printf '%s\n' 'WARNING: Unrelocated relative branches'