diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fdt.c b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fdt.c
index 6e909b5..97d3928 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fdt.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fdt.c
@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@
 	int len, off;
 	u32 *ph;
 	struct cpu_type *cpu = identify_cpu(SVR_SOC_VER(get_svr()));
-	char compat_buf[38];
 
 	const u32 line_size = 32;
 	const u32 num_ways = 8;
@@ -192,22 +191,32 @@
 	}
 
 	if (cpu) {
-		if (isdigit(cpu->name[0]))
-			len = sprintf(compat_buf,
-				"fsl,mpc%s-l2-cache-controller", cpu->name);
-		else
-			len = sprintf(compat_buf,
-				"fsl,%c%s-l2-cache-controller",
-				tolower(cpu->name[0]), cpu->name + 1);
+		char buf[40];
 
-		sprintf(&compat_buf[len + 1], "cache");
+		if (isdigit(cpu->name[0])) {
+			/* MPCxxxx, where xxxx == 4-digit number */
+			len = sprintf(buf, "fsl,mpc%s-l2-cache-controller",
+				cpu->name) + 1;
+		} else {
+			/* Pxxxx or Txxxx, where xxxx == 4-digit number */
+			len = sprintf(buf, "fsl,%c%s-l2-cache-controller",
+				tolower(cpu->name[0]), cpu->name + 1) + 1;
+		}
+
+		/*
+		 * append "cache" after the NULL character that the previous
+		 * sprintf wrote.  This is how a device tree stores multiple
+		 * strings in a property.
+		 */
+		len += sprintf(buf + len, "cache") + 1;
+
+		fdt_setprop(blob, off, "compatible", buf, len);
 	}
 	fdt_setprop(blob, off, "cache-unified", NULL, 0);
 	fdt_setprop_cell(blob, off, "cache-block-size", line_size);
 	fdt_setprop_cell(blob, off, "cache-size", size);
 	fdt_setprop_cell(blob, off, "cache-sets", num_sets);
 	fdt_setprop_cell(blob, off, "cache-level", 2);
-	fdt_setprop(blob, off, "compatible", compat_buf, sizeof(compat_buf));
 
 	/* we dont bother w/L3 since no platform of this type has one */
 }