diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/README b/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/README
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+2012/03/30 - Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
+  - Initial revision
+
+There are 4 primary PowerPC ABIs.
+# *) Hard/Soft Floating Point
+# *) 32-bit/64-bit
+
+TUNE_ARCH is defined as either "powerpc" or "powerpc64" based on the m32 
+or m64 feature.
+
+May of the PowerPC package archictures are based on legacy Linux names.
+However, a general naming scheme should be similar to: ppc[64][<family>][-nf].
+(Note: the default package architectures are "powerpc" and "powerpc64".)
+
+TUNE_PKGARCH is defined as TUNE_PKGARCH_tune-${DEFAULTTUNE}.  All 
+PowerPC tunings are required to define TUNE_PKGARCH_tune-<tune>.
+
diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc.inc b/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc.inc
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+# Power Architecture definition
+# Four defined ABIs, all combinations of:
+# *) Hard/Soft Floating Point
+# *) 32-bit/64-bit
+
+DEFAULTTUNE ?= "powerpc"
+
+TUNE_PKGARCH = "${TUNE_PKGARCH_tune-${DEFAULTTUNE}}"
+ABIEXTENSION ?= ""
+
+TUNEVALID[m32] = "Power ELF32 standard ABI"
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "m32", " -m32", "", d)}"
+TUNE_ARCH .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "m32", "powerpc", "", d)}"
+
+TUNEVALID[fpu-hard] = "Use hardware FPU."
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "fpu-hard", " -mhard-float", "", d)}"
+
+TUNEVALID[fpu-soft] = "Use software FPU."
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "fpu-soft", " -msoft-float", "", d)}"
+TARGET_FPU .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "fpu-soft", "soft", "", d)}"
+
+TUNEVALID[altivec] = "Altivec"
+
+# Basic tune definitions
+AVAILTUNES += "powerpc powerpc-nf" 
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-powerpc-nf = "m32 fpu-soft"
+BASE_LIB_tune-powerpc-nf = "lib"
+TUNE_PKGARCH_tune-powerpc-nf = "powerpc-nf"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-powerpc-nf = "powerpc-nf"
+
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-powerpc = "m32 fpu-hard"
+BASE_LIB_tune-powerpc = "lib"
+TUNE_PKGARCH_tune-powerpc = "powerpc"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-powerpc = "powerpc"
diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc b/meta/conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc64.inc
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+DEFAULTTUNE ?= "powerpc64"
+
+require conf/machine/include/powerpc/arch-powerpc.inc
+
+TUNEVALID[m64] = "Power ELF64 standard ABI"
+TUNECONFLICTS[m64] = "m32 nf"
+TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "m64", " -m64", "", d)}"
+TUNE_ARCH .= "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", [ "m64" ], "powerpc64", "", d)}"
+
+AVAILTUNES += "powerpc64"
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-powerpc64 ?= "m64 fpu-hard"
+BASE_LIB_tune-powerpc64 = "lib64"
+TUNE_PKGARCH_tune-powerpc64 = "powerpc64"
+PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-powerpc64 = "powerpc64"