diff -dur binutils-2.17.old/bfd/elf32-mips.c binutils-2.17/bfd/elf32-mips.c
--- binutils-2.17.old/bfd/elf32-mips.c	2006-03-22 10:28:13.000000000 +0100
+++ binutils-2.17/bfd/elf32-mips.c	2007-05-01 18:26:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -1617,7 +1617,9 @@
 
 /* The SVR4 MIPS ABI says that this should be 0x10000, and Linux uses
    page sizes of up to that limit, so we need to respect it.  */
-#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE			0x10000
+/*#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE			0x10000*/
+/* Use 4K to shrink the elf header.  NOT for general use! */
+#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE			0x1000
 #define elf32_bed			elf32_tradbed
 
 /* Include the target file again for this target.  */
diff -dur binutils-2.17.old/bfd/elfn32-mips.c binutils-2.17/bfd/elfn32-mips.c
--- binutils-2.17.old/bfd/elfn32-mips.c	2005-11-23 15:04:17.000000000 +0100
+++ binutils-2.17/bfd/elfn32-mips.c	2007-05-01 18:26:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -2402,7 +2402,9 @@
 
 /* The SVR4 MIPS ABI says that this should be 0x10000, and Linux uses
    page sizes of up to that limit, so we need to respect it.  */
-#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE			0x10000
+/*#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE			0x10000*/
+/* Use 4K to shrink the elf header.  NOT for general use! */
+#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE			0x1000
 #define elf32_bed			elf32_tradbed
 
 /* Include the target file again for this target.  */