diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h
index a26ca097d032..79f1c480b5eb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -12,14 +12,8 @@
 
 /*
  * This is used to ensure we don't load something for the wrong architecture.
- * 64le only supports ELFv2 64-bit binaries (64be supports v1 and v2).
  */
-#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)
-#define elf_check_arch(x) (((x)->e_machine == ELF_ARCH) && \
-			   (((x)->e_flags & 0x3) == 0x2))
-#else
 #define elf_check_arch(x) ((x)->e_machine == ELF_ARCH)
-#endif
 #define compat_elf_check_arch(x)	((x)->e_machine == EM_PPC)
 
 #define CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
index bc5d39a835fe..bf5dde1a4114 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -183,13 +183,9 @@ static inline bool test_thread_local_flags(unsigned int flags)
 #define clear_tsk_compat_task(tsk) do { } while (0)
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
+#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64)
 #define is_elf2_task() (test_thread_flag(TIF_ELF2ABI))
 #else
-#define is_elf2_task() (1)
-#endif
-#else
 #define is_elf2_task() (0)
 #endif