diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index ca8f8340d75f..f9a0c30976a5 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -285,15 +285,19 @@ endif
 # Other need ECOFF, so we build a 32-bit ELF binary for them which we then
 # convert to ECOFF using elf2ecoff.
 #
+quiet_cmd_32 = OBJCOPY $@
+	cmd_32 = $(OBJCOPY) -O $(32bit-bfd) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) $< $@
 vmlinux.32: vmlinux
-	$(OBJCOPY) -O $(32bit-bfd) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) $< $@
+	$(call cmd,32)
 
 #
 # The 64-bit ELF tools are pretty broken so at this time we generate 64-bit
 # ELF files from 32-bit files by conversion.
 #
+quiet_cmd_64 = OBJCOPY $@
+	cmd_64 = $(OBJCOPY) -O $(64bit-bfd) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) $< $@
 vmlinux.64: vmlinux
-	$(OBJCOPY) -O $(64bit-bfd) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) $< $@
+	$(call cmd,64)
 
 all:	$(all-y)