* OK... Let's do some funky business here.
                 * If we do have a DTB appended to zImage, and we do have
                 * an ATAG list around, we want the later to be translated
-                * and folded into the former here.  To be on the safe side,
-                * let's temporarily move  the stack away into the malloc
-                * area.  No GOT fixup has occurred yet, but none of the
-                * code we're about to call uses any global variable.
+                * and folded into the former here. No GOT fixup has occurred
+                * yet, but none of the code we're about to call uses any
+                * global variable.
                */
-               add     sp, sp, #0x10000
+
+               /* Get the initial DTB size */
+               ldr     r5, [r6, #4]
+#ifndef __ARMEB__
+               /* convert to little endian */
+               eor     r1, r5, r5, ror #16
+               bic     r1, r1, #0x00ff0000
+               mov     r5, r5, ror #8
+               eor     r5, r5, r1, lsr #8
+#endif
+               /* 50% DTB growth should be good enough */
+               add     r5, r5, r5, lsr #1
+               /* preserve 64-bit alignment */
+               add     r5, r5, #7
+               bic     r5, r5, #7
+               /* clamp to 32KB min and 1MB max */
+               cmp     r5, #(1 << 15)
+               movlo   r5, #(1 << 15)
+               cmp     r5, #(1 << 20)
+               movhi   r5, #(1 << 20)
+               /* temporarily relocate the stack past the DTB work space */
+               add     sp, sp, r5
+
                stmfd   sp!, {r0-r3, ip, lr}
                mov     r0, r8
                mov     r1, r6
-               sub     r2, sp, r6
+               mov     r2, r5
                bl      atags_to_fdt
 
                /*
                bic     r0, r0, #1
                add     r0, r0, #0x100
                mov     r1, r6
-               sub     r2, sp, r6
+               mov     r2, r5
                bleq    atags_to_fdt
 
                ldmfd   sp!, {r0-r3, ip, lr}
-               sub     sp, sp, #0x10000
+               sub     sp, sp, r5
 #endif
 
                mov     r8, r6                  @ use the appended device tree
                subs    r1, r5, r1
                addhi   r9, r9, r1
 
-               /* Get the dtb's size */
+               /* Get the current DTB size */
                ldr     r5, [r6, #4]
 #ifndef __ARMEB__
                /* convert r5 (dtb size) to little endian */