diff --git a/gdb/cris-tdep.c b/gdb/cris-tdep.c
index 1b0e3cd..ef2746d 100644
--- a/gdb/cris-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/cris-tdep.c
@@ -4137,6 +4137,11 @@ cris_gdbarch_init (struct gdbarch_info info, struct gdbarch_list *arches)
       set_gdbarch_single_step_through_delay 
 	(gdbarch, crisv32_single_step_through_delay);
 
+      /* FIXME: Ricard W/2013-09-03: Linux-specific stuff like this
+         should really go in (a new) cris-linux-tdep.c. */
+      set_gdbarch_fetch_tls_load_module_address (gdbarch,
+                                                 svr4_fetch_objfile_link_map);
+
       break;
 
     default:
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/linux-crisv32-low.c b/gdb/gdbserver/linux-crisv32-low.c
index 2849d02..84cb7ff 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/linux-crisv32-low.c
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/linux-crisv32-low.c
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ extern const struct target_desc *tdesc_crisv32;
 /* CRISv32 */
 #define cris_num_regs 49
 
+#ifndef PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA
+#define PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA 25
+#endif
+
 /* Note: Ignoring USP (having the stack pointer in two locations causes trouble
    without any significant gain).  */
 
@@ -339,6 +343,20 @@ cris_stopped_data_address (void)
   return eda;
 }
 
+ps_err_e
+ps_get_thread_area (const struct ps_prochandle *ph,
+                    lwpid_t lwpid, int idx, void **base)
+{
+  if (ptrace (PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA, lwpid, NULL, base) != 0)
+    return PS_ERR;
+
+  /* IDX is the bias from the thread pointer to the beginning of the
+     thread descriptor.  It has to be subtracted due to implementation
+     quirks in libthread_db.  */
+  *base = (void *) ((char *) *base - idx);
+  return PS_OK;
+}
+
 static void
 cris_fill_gregset (struct regcache *regcache, void *buf)
 {