I noticed this when testing setarch. No, we don't magically
support a big endian userspace on a little endian kernel.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org>
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h 
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
index 84fdf68..ef22898 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 
 #define COMPAT_USER_HZ         100
+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__
 #define COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE     "ppc\0\0"
+#else
+#define COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE     "ppcle\0\0"
+#endif
 
 typedef u32            compat_size_t;
 typedef s32            compat_ssize_t;
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