diff -urN ezm3-1.1/language/modula3/m3compiler/m3middle/src/Target.m3 ezm3-1.1-cross/language/modula3/m3compiler/m3middle/src/Target.m3
--- ezm3-1.1/language/modula3/m3compiler/m3middle/src/Target.m3	2003-03-02 15:39:31.000000000 -0500
+++ ezm3-1.1-cross/language/modula3/m3compiler/m3middle/src/Target.m3	2004-02-13 23:53:27.000000000 -0500
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     AIX386, ALPHA_OSF, AP3000, ARM, BSDI4, DS3100,
     FBSD_ALPHA, FBSD_SPARC64, FreeBSD, FreeBSD2, FreeBSD3,
     FreeBSD4, HP300, HPPA, IBMR2,
-    IBMRT, IRIX5, LINUX, LINUXELF, LINUXLIBC6,
+    IBMRT, IRIX5, LINUX, LINUXELF, LINUXLIBC6, PPC_LINUX,
     NetBSDarm, NetBSDi386, NetBSDsparc,
     NEXT, NT386, NT386GNU, OKI, OpenBSD_386, SEQUENT,
     SOLgnu, SOLsun, SPARC, SUN3, SUN386, Tru64v5,
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     "AIX386", "ALPHA_OSF", "AP3000", "ARM", "BSDI4", "DS3100",
     "FBSD_ALPHA", "FBSD_SPARC64", "FreeBSD", "FreeBSD2", "FreeBSD3",
     "FreeBSD4", "HP300", "HPPA", "IBMR2",
-    "IBMRT", "IRIX5", "LINUX", "LINUXELF", "LINUXLIBC6",
+    "IBMRT", "IRIX5", "LINUX", "LINUXELF", "LINUXLIBC6", "PPC_LINUX",
     "NetBSDarm", "NetBSDi386", "NetBSDsparc",
     "NEXT", "NT386", "NT386GNU", "OKI", "OpenBSD_386", "SEQUENT",
     "SOLgnu", "SOLsun", "SPARC", "SUN3", "SUN386", "Tru64v5",
@@ -533,6 +533,27 @@
                    LINUXELFCall (0, "C", 0);
                  END;
 
+    |  Systems.PPC_LINUX => 
+      (* FIXME: preliminary assumptions bound to change *)
+                 max_align                 := 64;
+                 Little_endian             := FALSE;
+                 PCC_bitfield_type_matters := TRUE;
+                 Structure_size_boundary   := 8;
+                 Bitfield_can_overlap      := FALSE;
+                 First_readable_addr       := 4096 * Char.size;
+                 Jumpbuf_size              := 58 * Address.size + 
+                                              32 * Address.size + 4;
+                 Jumpbuf_align             := Address.align;
+                 Fixed_frame_size          := 8 * Address.size;
+                 Guard_page_size           := 0 * Char.size;
+                 All_floats_legal          := TRUE;
+                 Has_stack_walker          := FALSE;
+                 Setjmp                    := "_setjmp";
+                 Checks_integer_ops        := FALSE;
+                 Global_handler_stack      := TRUE;
+                 Aligned_procedures        := TRUE;
+                 EOL                       := "\n";
+
     | Systems.NEXT =>
                  max_align                 := 16;
                  Little_endian             := FALSE;
diff -urN ezm3-1.1/libs/libm3/src/random/m3makefile ezm3-1.1-cross/libs/libm3/src/random/m3makefile
--- ezm3-1.1/libs/libm3/src/random/m3makefile	2002-03-22 21:28:42.000000000 -0500
+++ ezm3-1.1-cross/libs/libm3/src/random/m3makefile	2004-02-13 23:16:44.000000000 -0500
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
   "LINUX"      : [ _LittleEndian ],
   "LINUXELF"   : [ _LittleEndian ],
   "LINUXLIBC6" : [ _LittleEndian ],
+  "PPC_LINUX"  : [ _BigEndian ],
   "NetBSDarm"  : [ _LittleEndian ],
   "NetBSDi386" : [ _LittleEndian ],
   "NetBSDsparc": [ _BigEndian ],
diff -urN ezm3-1.1/m3config/src/COMMON ezm3-1.1-cross/m3config/src/COMMON
--- ezm3-1.1/m3config/src/COMMON    2003-04-10 14:26:05.000000000 -0400
+++ ezm3-1.1-cross/m3config/src/COMMON  2004-02-14 03:37:03.316593936 -0500
@@ -600,6 +589,7 @@
   "LINUX"     : [ "POSIX", "32BITS", "i486--linux", ""        ],
   "LINUXELF"  : [ "POSIX", "32BITS", "i486--linuxelf", "T"    ],
   "LINUXLIBC6": [ "POSIX", "32BITS", "i486--linuxelf", "T"    ],
+  "PPC_LINUX" : [ "POSIX", "32BITS", "powerpc--linuxelf", "T" ],
   "NEXT"      : [ "POSIX", "32BITS", "next-bsd", ""          ],
   "NetBSDarm" : [ "POSIX", "32BITS", "arm-unknown-netbsd", "T" ],
   "NetBSDi386": [ "POSIX", "32BITS", "i486-unknown-netbsdelf", "T" ],
diff -urN ezm3-1.1/m3config/src/PPC_LINUX ezm3-1.1-cross/m3config/src/PPC_LINUX
--- ezm3-1.1/m3config/src/PPC_LINUX	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ ezm3-1.1-cross/m3config/src/PPC_LINUX	2004-02-13 15:14:44.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+
+readonly TARGET = "PPC_LINUX"
+
+include("COMMON")
+
+INSTALL_ROOT = "/usr/local"
+X11ROOT = "/usr/X11R6/lib"
+
+% The internal back end is disabled in ezm3.
+%PLATFORM_SUPPORTS_INTERNAL_BACKEND = "T"
+PLATFORM_SUPPORTS_SHARED_LIB = "T"
+
+setDefault("","")
+