diff --git a/openpower/package/hostboot/hostboot.mk b/openpower/package/hostboot/hostboot.mk
index bdd6206..480c377 100644
--- a/openpower/package/hostboot/hostboot.mk
+++ b/openpower/package/hostboot/hostboot.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 HOSTBOOT_VERSION_BRANCH_MASTER_P8 ?= 695bd891343faf1f0ef85fe53148590e58239efd
-HOSTBOOT_VERSION_BRANCH_MASTER ?= 0ffbb55230683d680c3a4dbc6ba40b4af5c61572
+HOSTBOOT_VERSION_BRANCH_MASTER ?= f2250d8720223ea8fde4a7c0b6819eaebf070915
 
 HOSTBOOT_VERSION ?= $(if $(BR2_OPENPOWER_POWER9),$(HOSTBOOT_VERSION_BRANCH_MASTER),$(HOSTBOOT_VERSION_BRANCH_MASTER_P8))
 HOSTBOOT_SITE ?= $(call github,open-power,hostboot,$(HOSTBOOT_VERSION))
diff --git a/openpower/package/hostboot/p9Patches/hostboot-0002-kernel-Update-assembly-for-modern-binutils.patch b/openpower/package/hostboot/p9Patches/hostboot-0002-kernel-Update-assembly-for-modern-binutils.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 28b9dc5..0000000
--- a/openpower/package/hostboot/p9Patches/hostboot-0002-kernel-Update-assembly-for-modern-binutils.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-From a74562d710c07c1dd2e510fd2c9c259f1f72e4ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Joel Stanley <joel.stanley@au1.ibm.com>
-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:00:09 +0930
-Subject: [PATCH] kernel: Update assembly for modern binutils
-
-From Linux 80f23935cadb ("powerpc: Convert cmp to cmpd in idle enter sequence"):
-
-  PowerPC's "cmp" instruction has four operands. Normally people write
-  "cmpw" or "cmpd" for the second cmp operand 0 or 1. But, frequently
-  people forget, and write "cmp" with just three operands.
-
-  With older binutils this is silently accepted as if this was "cmpw",
-  while often "cmpd" is wanted. With newer binutils GAS will complain
-  about this for 64-bit code. For 32-bit code it still silently assumes
-  "cmpw" is what is meant.
-
-The first two instances are dealing with SPRs, which are 32-bit, so cmpw is correct.
-
-It is not clear what to do in the third use of cmp, but given old toolchains
-have generated cmpw lets assume that we should maintain the behaviour.
-
-Change-Id: Iee5dd5903dcd7ac4028bab0176e08ce3db23b2d5
-Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel.stanley@au1.ibm.com>
----
- src/kernel/shutdown.S | 8 ++++----
- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/kernel/shutdown.S b/src/kernel/shutdown.S
-index b3c47725ae79..0c42a19cfbfe 100644
---- a/src/kernel/shutdown.S
-+++ b/src/kernel/shutdown.S
-@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
- #
- # OpenPOWER HostBoot Project
- #
--# Contributors Listed Below - COPYRIGHT 2012,2016
-+# Contributors Listed Below - COPYRIGHT 2012,2017
- # [+] International Business Machines Corp.
- #
- #
-@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ kernel_shutdown_ea0_1_mode:
-         ;// as it was the one that updated the cpu_count & lowest_pir
-         ;// barrier - 1 wait for all nodes to report
-     mfspr  r10, PIR
--    cmp    cr0, r10, r7
-+    cmpw    cr0, r10, r7
-     bne+ 2f       ;// inside KERNEL_BARRIER below
- 
-         ;// Perform barrier - 1
-@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ kernel_shutdown_ea0_1_mode:
-     addi r8, r8, 8
-             ;// Check for PIR == r7.
-     mfspr r10, PIR
--    cmp cr0, r10, r7
-+    cmpw cr0, r10, r7
-     beq 3f
-         ;// Increment thread count.
- 1:
-@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ kernel_shutdown_ea0_1_mode:
- 1:
-     or 1,1,1
-     ld r11, 0(r8)
--    cmp cr0, r3, r11
-+    cmpw cr0, r3, r11
-     bne+ 1b
-     isync
-         ;// All other threads have left, so wait a little bit...
--- 
-2.13.1
-