diff --git a/common/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native/0001-add-support-for-Power8-LE-mode.patch b/common/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native/0001-add-support-for-Power8-LE-mode.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b8c240
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/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/common/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.22.bbappend b/common/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.22.bbappend
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f065ed7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.22.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SRC_URI += "file://0001-add-support-for-Power8-LE-mode.patch"
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"