diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 80ec3c798..82a0f9e6e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ linux (4.11-1~exp2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     from built-in to modules (fixes FTBFS)
   * usbip: Fix potential format overflow in userspace tools (fixes FTBFS on
     64-bit architectures with gcc-7)
+  * [mips*/octeon] Increase RELOCATION_TABLE_SIZE to 0x00110000 (fixes FTBFS)
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Wed, 03 May 2017 22:32:40 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/config/kernelarch-mips/config.octeon b/debian/config/kernelarch-mips/config.octeon
index 778c43a56..046c1a883 100644
--- a/debian/config/kernelarch-mips/config.octeon
+++ b/debian/config/kernelarch-mips/config.octeon
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC=y
 # CONFIG_32BIT is not set
 CONFIG_64BIT=y
 ## end choice
+CONFIG_RELOCATION_TABLE_SIZE=0x00110000
 CONFIG_SMP=y
 # CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set
 CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64