diff --git a/disable-tests-with-ptrace.patch b/disable-tests-with-ptrace.patch
index 52bf48e..023fefa 100644
--- a/disable-tests-with-ptrace.patch
+++ b/disable-tests-with-ptrace.patch
@@ -1,22 +1,34 @@
 qemu-linux-user does not support ptrace, disable tests that depend on it
+/proc/self/auxv is not properly abstracted away
 
-Index: elfutils-0.166/tests/Makefile.am
+Index: elfutils-0.168/tests/Makefile.am
 ===================================================================
---- elfutils-0.166.orig/tests/Makefile.am
-+++ elfutils-0.166/tests/Makefile.am
-@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ TESTS = run-arextract.sh run-arsymtest.s
+--- elfutils-0.168.orig/tests/Makefile.am
++++ elfutils-0.168/tests/Makefile.am
+@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ TESTS = run-arextract.sh run-arsymtest.s
+ 	run-native-test.sh run-bug1-test.sh \
+ 	run-debuglink.sh run-debugaltlink.sh run-buildid.sh \
+ 	dwfl-bug-addr-overflow run-addrname-test.sh \
+-	dwfl-bug-fd-leak dwfl-bug-report \
++	dwfl-bug-report \
+ 	run-dwfl-bug-offline-rel.sh run-dwfl-addr-sect.sh \
+ 	run-disasm-x86.sh run-disasm-x86-64.sh \
+ 	run-early-offscn.sh run-dwarf-getmacros.sh run-dwarf-ranges.sh \
+@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ TESTS = run-arextract.sh run-arsymtest.s
+ 	run-backtrace-demangle.sh run-stack-d-test.sh run-stack-i-test.sh \
  	run-stack-demangled-test.sh run-readelf-zx.sh run-readelf-zp.sh \
  	run-readelf-dwz-multi.sh run-allfcts-multi.sh run-deleted.sh \
- 	run-linkmap-cut.sh run-aggregate-size.sh vdsosyms run-readelf-A.sh \
+-	run-linkmap-cut.sh run-aggregate-size.sh vdsosyms run-readelf-A.sh \
 -	run-getsrc-die.sh run-strptr.sh newdata elfstrtab dwfl-proc-attach \
++	run-linkmap-cut.sh run-aggregate-size.sh run-readelf-A.sh \
 +	run-getsrc-die.sh run-strptr.sh newdata elfstrtab \
  	elfshphehdr run-lfs-symbols.sh run-dwelfgnucompressed.sh \
  	run-elfgetchdr.sh \
  	run-elfgetzdata.sh run-elfputzdata.sh run-zstrptr.sh \
-Index: elfutils-0.166/tests/backtrace-subr.sh
+Index: elfutils-0.168/tests/backtrace-subr.sh
 ===================================================================
---- elfutils-0.166.orig/tests/backtrace-subr.sh
-+++ elfutils-0.166/tests/backtrace-subr.sh
+--- elfutils-0.168.orig/tests/backtrace-subr.sh
++++ elfutils-0.168/tests/backtrace-subr.sh
 @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ check_native_unsupported()
        fi
      ;;
diff --git a/elfutils.changes b/elfutils.changes
index b5ae5fc..ba60ffb 100644
--- a/elfutils.changes
+++ b/elfutils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jun 18 12:45:19 UTC 2017 - schwab@linux-m68k.org
+
+- ppc-machine-flags.patch: support EM_PPC machine flags
+- disable-tests-with-ptrace.patch: disable more tests
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun May 28 07:44:17 UTC 2017 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/elfutils.spec b/elfutils.spec
index 0d18dc4..2652aa8 100644
--- a/elfutils.spec
+++ b/elfutils.spec
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Source2:        baselibs.conf
 Source3:        %{name}.changes
 Patch1:         disable-tests-with-ptrace.patch
 Patch2:         0001-backends-Add-support-for-EM_PPC64-GNU_ATTRIBUTES.patch
+Patch3:         ppc-machine-flags.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
@@ -144,6 +145,7 @@ to develop applications that require these.
 %patch1 -p1
 %endif
 %patch2 -p1
+%patch3 -p1
 
 %build
 # Change DATE/TIME macros to use last change time of elfutils.changes
diff --git a/ppc-machine-flags.patch b/ppc-machine-flags.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2964fcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ppc-machine-flags.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+2017-06-15  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
+
+	* ppc_symbol.c (ppc_machine_flag_check): New function.
+	* ppc_init.c (ppc_init): Hook it.
+
+diff --git a/backends/ppc_init.c b/backends/ppc_init.c
+index c3e3ca3607..aea9f2d740 100644
+--- a/backends/ppc_init.c
++++ b/backends/ppc_init.c
+@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ ppc_init (Elf *elf __attribute__ ((unused)),
+   eh->name = "PowerPC";
+   ppc_init_reloc (eh);
+   HOOK (eh, reloc_simple_type);
++  HOOK (eh, machine_flag_check);
+   HOOK (eh, dynamic_tag_name);
+   HOOK (eh, dynamic_tag_check);
+   HOOK (eh, check_special_symbol);
+diff --git a/backends/ppc_symbol.c b/backends/ppc_symbol.c
+index 1273c1d299..4b32003acc 100644
+--- a/backends/ppc_symbol.c
++++ b/backends/ppc_symbol.c
+@@ -57,6 +57,16 @@ ppc_reloc_simple_type (Ebl *ebl __attribute__ ((unused)), int type)
+ }
+ 
+ 
++/* Check whether machine flags are valid.  */
++bool
++ppc_machine_flag_check (GElf_Word flags)
++{
++  return ((flags &~ (EF_PPC_EMB
++		     | EF_PPC_RELOCATABLE
++		     | EF_PPC_RELOCATABLE_LIB)) == 0);
++}
++
++
+ const char *
+ ppc_dynamic_tag_name (int64_t tag, char *buf __attribute__ ((unused)),
+ 		      size_t len __attribute__ ((unused)))
+-- 
+2.13.1
+