# \[RFC PATCH 7/8\] powerpc/purgatory: drop .machine specifier

- From: Daniel Axtens \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-02-25 03:13:37 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/02/9521061
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/02/9521054/t.md

```text
It's ignored by future versions of llvm's integrated assembler (by not -11).
I'm not sure what it does for us in gas.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/purgatory/trampoline_64.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/purgatory/trampoline_64.S b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/trampoline_64.S
index d956b8a35fd1..e6a2740a5da0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/purgatory/trampoline_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/trampoline_64.S
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #include <asm/asm-compat.h>
 #include <asm/crashdump-ppc64.h>
 
-	.machine ppc64
+//upgrade clang, gets ignored	.machine ppc64
 	.balign 256
 	.globl purgatory_start
 purgatory_start:
-- 
2.27.0

```