On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 05:27:24PM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote: > Naturally on POWER the first cpu that has LE support is POWER8 so you > can count on all other POWER8 features to be present.
This is not true. The oldest CPU the ELFv2 ABI (and so, powerpc64le-linux) supports is POWER8, but most 6xx/7xx CPUs had a working LE mode already. There are very old ABIs that support LE as well. Segher