diff --git a/arch/arm/common/Makefile b/arch/arm/common/Makefile
index e8a4e58..55d4182 100644
--- a/arch/arm/common/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/common/Makefile
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # Makefile for the linux kernel.
 #
 
+obj-y += firmware.o
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_GIC)		+= gic.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_VIC)		+= vic.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ICST)		+= icst.o
diff --git a/arch/arm/common/firmware.c b/arch/arm/common/firmware.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27ddccb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/common/firmware.c
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 Samsung Electronics.
+ * Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
+ * Tomasz Figa <t.figa@samsung.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/suspend.h>
+
+#include <asm/firmware.h>
+
+static const struct firmware_ops default_firmware_ops;
+
+const struct firmware_ops *firmware_ops = &default_firmware_ops;
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d87d8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 Samsung Electronics.
+ * Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
+ * Tomasz Figa <t.figa@samsung.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __ASM_ARM_FIRMWARE_H
+#define __ASM_ARM_FIRMWARE_H
+
+struct firmware_ops {
+	int (*do_idle)(void);
+	int (*cpu_boot)(int cpu);
+	int (*cpu_boot_reg)(int cpu, void __iomem **ptr);
+	int (*l2x0_init)(void);
+};
+
+extern const struct firmware_ops *firmware_ops;
+
+#define call_firmware_op(op, ...)					\
+	((firmware_ops->op) ? firmware_ops->op(__VA_ARGS__) : (-ENOSYS))
+
+static inline void register_firmware_ops(const struct firmware_ops *ops)
+{
+	firmware_ops = ops;
+}
+
+#endif