diff --git a/lib/libc/powerpc/gen/makecontext.c b/lib/libc/powerpc/gen/makecontext.c
index 6f047df7c5a1..d66e82457a4e 100644
--- a/lib/libc/powerpc/gen/makecontext.c
+++ b/lib/libc/powerpc/gen/makecontext.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ __makecontext(ucontext_t *ucp, void (*start)(void), int argc, ...)
 	 * Use caller-saved regs 14/15 to hold params that _ctx_start
 	 * will use to invoke the user-supplied func
 	 */
-	mc->mc_lr = (uint32_t) _ctx_start;
+	mc->mc_srr0 = (uint32_t) _ctx_start;
 	mc->mc_gpr[1] = (uint32_t) sp;		/* new stack pointer */
 	mc->mc_gpr[14] = (uint32_t) start;	/* r14 <- start */
 	mc->mc_gpr[15] = (uint32_t) ucp;	/* r15 <- ucp */