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diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/config.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/config.go
index 60b6491859..2d8f96408e 100644
--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/config.go
+++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/config.go
@@ -247,9 +247,6 @@ func determineLinkMode(ctxt *Link) {
                        }
                        ctxt.LinkMode = LinkInternal
                case "1":
-                       if objabi.GOARCH == "ppc64" {
-                               Exitf("external linking requested via GO_EXTLINK_ENABLED but not supported for %s/ppc64", objabi.GOOS)

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# compile with:	 gcc -m32 -static -nostdlib -o hello hello.s

	
	.text

	.globl	_start

_start:	
	bl	1f
1:

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FW upload starts with a packet of type 8:

byte 0 : 00
byte 1 : 08 = FW upload start command
byte 2 : 03 = packet sequence number
byte 3 : 01 = upload protocol version?  Must be 1
byte 4-5 : 00 00 = total number of bytes (16-bit little endian), 0 means 64K (max size)
byte 6-7 : 7e 04 = total number of data blocks (16-bit little endian)
byte 8-9 : 00 00 = ? (not used)
byte 10: 39 = bytes of flash data per data block (decimal: 57) (not used)