endif
 dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MACHINE', machine)
 machine_args = []
-machine_args += '-march=' + machine
+# ppc64 does not support -march=native
+if host_machine.cpu_family().startswith('ppc') and machine == 'native'
+       machine_args += '-mcpu=' + machine
+       machine_args += '-mtune=' + machine
+else
+       machine_args += '-march=' + machine
+endif
 
 toolchain = cc.get_id()
 dpdk_conf.set_quoted('RTE_TOOLCHAIN', toolchain)
        arch_subdir = 'x86'
 elif host_machine.cpu_family().startswith('arm') or host_machine.cpu_family().startswith('aarch')
        arch_subdir = 'arm'
+elif host_machine.cpu_family().startswith('ppc')
+       arch_subdir = 'ppc_64'
 endif
 subdir(arch_subdir)
 dpdk_conf.set('RTE_COMPILE_TIME_CPUFLAGS', ','.join(compile_time_cpuflags))
 
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+# Copyright(c) 2018 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
+
+dpdk_conf.set('RTE_ARCH', 'ppc_64')
+dpdk_conf.set('RTE_ARCH_PPC_64', 1)
+dpdk_conf.set('RTE_ARCH_64', 1)
+
+# overrides specific to ppc64
+dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_LCORE', 256)
+dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES', 32)
+dpdk_conf.set('RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE', 128)
 
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+# Copyright(c) 2018 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
+
+eal_common_arch_sources = files('rte_cpuflags.c',
+       'rte_cycles.c', 'rte_hypervisor.c')
 
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+# Copyright(c) 2018 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
+
+install_headers(
+       'rte_atomic.h',
+       'rte_byteorder.h',
+       'rte_cpuflags.h',
+       'rte_cycles.h',
+       'rte_io.h',
+       'rte_memcpy.h',
+       'rte_pause.h',
+       'rte_prefetch.h',
+       'rte_rwlock.h',
+       'rte_spinlock.h',
+       'rte_vect.h',
+       subdir: get_option('include_subdir_arch'))