diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/classes/siteinfo.bbclass b/yocto-poky/meta/classes/siteinfo.bbclass
index 9f6eac4..3b562ee 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/classes/siteinfo.bbclass
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/classes/siteinfo.bbclass
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
         "powerpc64": "endian-big bit-64 powerpc-common",
         "ppc": "endian-big bit-32 powerpc-common",
         "ppc64": "endian-big bit-64 powerpc-common",
+        "ppc64le": "endian-little bit-64 powerpc-common",
         "sh3": "endian-little bit-32 sh-common",
         "sh4": "endian-little bit-32 sh-common",
         "sparc": "endian-big bit-32",
diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native/0001-add-support-for-Power8-LE-mode.patch b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native/0001-add-support-for-Power8-LE-mode.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b8c240
--- /dev/null
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native/0001-add-support-for-Power8-LE-mode.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From bc89a1d5329cf8f8a67a5e8c2b7ed53aa6611183 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Chris Austen <austenc@us.ibm.com>
+Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:49:24 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH 1/1] add support for Power8 LE mode
+
+---
+ config.guess | 3 +++
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/localedef/config.guess b/localedef/config.guess
+index 61f2e4c..c77ec22 100644
+--- a/localedef/config.guess
++++ b/localedef/config.guess
+@@ -876,6 +876,9 @@ EOF
+     ppc64:Linux:*:*)
+ 	echo powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
+ 	exit 0 ;;
++    ppc64le:Linux:*:*)
++       echo powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
++       exit 0 ;;
+     alpha:Linux:*:*)
+ 	case `sed -n '/^cpu model/s/^.*: \(.*\)/\1/p' < /proc/cpuinfo` in
+ 	  EV5)   UNAME_MACHINE=alphaev5 ;;
+-- 
+1.9.1
+
diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.22.bb b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.22.bb
index 2153ece..c7a9db7 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.22.bb
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.22.bb
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 SRC_URI = "${GLIBC_GIT_URI};branch=${BRANCH};name=glibc \
            git://github.com/kraj/localedef;branch=master;name=localedef;destsuffix=git/localedef \
            file://fix_for_centos_5.8.patch \
+           file://0001-add-support-for-Power8-LE-mode.patch \
            ${EGLIBCPATCHES} \
 "
 EGLIBCPATCHES = "\