diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index 768dc473ed..e98129dc9e 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-11-22  Senthil Kumar Selvaraj  <senthil_kumar.selvaraj@atmel.com>
+
+	* scripttempl/avr.sc: Set .data section's LMA to next available
+	address in text region.
+
 2013-11-21  Andrew Pinski  <apinski@cavium.com>
 
 	* Makefile.am (ALL_64_EMULATION_SOURCES): Add eaarch64linux32.c
diff --git a/ld/scripttempl/avr.sc b/ld/scripttempl/avr.sc
index bfce5fe0f6..10714e1d73 100644
--- a/ld/scripttempl/avr.sc
+++ b/ld/scripttempl/avr.sc
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ SECTIONS
     ${RELOCATING+ _etext = . ; }
   } ${RELOCATING+ > text}
 
-  .data	${RELOCATING-0} : ${RELOCATING+AT (ADDR (.text) + SIZEOF (.text))}
+  .data        ${RELOCATING-0} :
   {
     ${RELOCATING+ PROVIDE (__data_start = .) ; }
     /* --gc-sections will delete empty .data. This leads to wrong start
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ SECTIONS
     ${RELOCATING+. = ALIGN(2);}
     ${RELOCATING+ _edata = . ; }
     ${RELOCATING+ PROVIDE (__data_end = .) ; }
-  } ${RELOCATING+ > data}
+  } ${RELOCATING+ > data ${RELOCATING+AT> text}}
 
   .bss ${RELOCATING-0} :${RELOCATING+ AT (ADDR (.bss))}
   {