diff --git a/board/qemu/ppc64le-pseries/readme.txt b/board/qemu/ppc64le-pseries/readme.txt
index dd188c505f..beda5c0618 100644
--- a/board/qemu/ppc64le-pseries/readme.txt
+++ b/board/qemu/ppc64le-pseries/readme.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Run the emulation with:
 
-qemu-system-ppc64le -M pseries -nographic \
+qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries -nographic \
 		-kernel output/images/vmlinux \
 		-initrd output/images/rootfs.ext2