--- a/hotspot/make/linux/Makefile	Wed Jul 02 15:17:11 2014 +0200
+++ b/hotspot/make/linux/Makefile	Wed Jul 02 13:50:16 2014 -0700
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (c) 1999, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 1999, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 # DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
 #
 # This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -67,8 +67,12 @@
   endif
 endif
 # C1 is not ported on ppc64, so we cannot build a tiered VM:
-ifeq ($(ARCH),ppc64)
-  FORCE_TIERED=0
+# Notice: after 8046471 ARCH will be 'ppc' for top-level ppc64 builds but
+# 'ppc64' for HotSpot-only ppc64 builds. Need to detect both variants here!
+ifneq (,$(findstring $(ARCH), ppc ppc64))
+  ifeq ($(ARCH_DATA_MODEL), 64)
+    FORCE_TIERED=0
+  endif
 endif
 
 ifdef LP64