diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index ba3d94c875..9f694f87e4 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -145,6 +145,24 @@ endif
 ###############################################################################
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2016.05"
 
+config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC
+	bool "PowerPC Sourcery toolchain has been removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  The Sourcery CodeBench toolchain for the PowerPC
+	  architecture has been removed, as it was very old, not
+	  maintained, and causing numerous build failures with modern
+	  userspace packages.
+
+config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC_E500V2
+	bool "PowerPC Sourcery E500v2 toolchain has been removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  The Sourcery CodeBench toolchain for the PowerPC E500v2
+	  architecture has been removed, as it was very old, not
+	  maintained, and causing numerous build failures with modern
+	  userspace packages.
+
 config BR2_x86_i386
 	bool "x86 i386 support removed"
 	help
diff --git a/package/liquid-dsp/Config.in b/package/liquid-dsp/Config.in
index ad887cb561..a2cd21cf05 100644
--- a/package/liquid-dsp/Config.in
+++ b/package/liquid-dsp/Config.in
@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
 comment "liquid-dsp requires a (e)glibc/musl toolchain w/ dynamic library"
-	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC
 	depends on !(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_MUSL) || BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 
 config BR2_PACKAGE_LIQUID_DSP
 	bool "liquid-dsp"
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_MUSL
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
-	# These result in internal compiler error
-	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC
 	help
 	  Liquid-DSP is a free and open-source signal processing
 	  library for software-defined radios written in C.  Its
diff --git a/package/pixman/pixman.mk b/package/pixman/pixman.mk
index 06070f0c5e..ae8d62c589 100644
--- a/package/pixman/pixman.mk
+++ b/package/pixman/pixman.mk
@@ -32,10 +32,5 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_NIOSII),y)
 PIXMAN_CONF_ENV += CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS) -DPIXMAN_NO_TLS"
 endif
 
-# Altivec detection isn't reliable for CS toolchains
-ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC),y)
-PIXMAN_CONF_OPTS += --disable-vmx
-endif
-
 $(eval $(autotools-package))
 $(eval $(host-autotools-package))
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in b/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in
index 271ec5ae3c..b7f9241296 100644
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in
@@ -419,58 +419,6 @@ config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_NIOSII
 	  from Mentor Graphics. It uses gcc 5.2, binutils 2.25.51,
 	  glibc 2.22, gdb 7.10.50 and kernel headers 4.2.
 
-config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC_E500V2
-	bool "Sourcery CodeBench PowerPC 2012.03 (e500v2 only)"
-	depends on BR2_powerpc
-	depends on BR2_powerpc_8548 # e500v2 support only
-	depends on BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86_64" || BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86"
-	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC
-	select BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
-	select BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_LIBS
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_2
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_6
-	help
-	  Sourcery CodeBench toolchain for the PowerPC architecture,
-	  from Mentor Graphics. It uses gcc 4.6.3, binutils 2.21.53,
-	  glibc 2.15, gdb 7.2.50 and kernel headers 3.2.10. It has
-	  support for the following variants:
-	    - e500v2 glibc, SPE, 32 bits
-
-config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC
-	bool "Sourcery CodeBench PowerPC 2011.03"
-	depends on BR2_powerpc
-	depends on BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86_64" || BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86"
-	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC
-	select BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
-	select BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_LIBS
-	# kernel headers: 2.6.38
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_5
-	help
-	  Sourcery CodeBench toolchain for the PowerPC architecture,
-	  from Mentor Graphics. It uses gcc 4.5.2, binutils 2.20.51,
-	  glibc 2.13, gdb 7.2.50 and kernel headers 2.6.38. It has
-	  support for the following variants:
-	    - 603 glibc, 32 bits
-	      Select a generic PowerPC core
-	      Disable BR2_SOFT_FLOAT
-	    - 603 soft float glibc, 32 bits
-	      Select a generic PowerPC core
-	      Enable BR2_SOFT_FLOAT
-	    - e600 altivec glibc, 32 bits
-	      Set BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION to -te600
-	    - e500v1 glibc, 32 bits
-	      Set BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION to -te500v1
-	    - e500v2 glibc, 32 bits
-	      Set BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION to -te500v2
-	    - e500mc glibc, 32 bits
-	      Set BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION to -te500mc
-	    - 970 glibc hard-float, 64 bits
-	      Set BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION to -m64
-
 config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH
 	bool "Sourcery CodeBench SH 2012.09"
 	depends on BR2_sh4a || BR2_sh4aeb
@@ -723,8 +671,6 @@ config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX
 	default "aarch64-amd-linux-gnu"  if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_AARCH64
 	default "mips-linux-gnu"         if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_MIPS
 	default "nios2-linux-gnu"        if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_NIOSII
-	default "powerpc-linux-gnu"      if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC
-	default "powerpc-mentor-linux-gnu" if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC_E500V2
 	default "sh-linux-gnu"           if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH
 	default "i686-pc-linux-gnu"	 if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_X86
 	default "x86_64-amd-linux-gnu"   if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_AMD64
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.hash b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.hash
index 5f4e659407..fcd735b860 100644
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.hash
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.hash
@@ -12,11 +12,6 @@ sha256 e16a5b1e41d7ff1e74161f9405182001bc8d1360d89564e73911032e6966cc0d  arm-201
 # NiosII
 sha256 e43899fd950e5d06e90c2eb01527c626240b6b4a603cbbeb532fad9fb8ea58c3  sourceryg++-2015.11-130-nios2-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
 sha256 c412375ba3f93bafc9225de22366fa5b3f4d073ef856cf19595237ddb0815e6d  sourceryg++-2015.11-130-nios2-linux-gnu.src.tar.bz2
-# PowerPC
-sha256 525e1f53abbf65c2974ae9af762c45bb38520fe5fc50e968a23fe6a18e9eec04  freescale-2011.03-38-powerpc-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
-sha256 fe45a1d2725e1b9f0ec7b8041c923e01f461da01b298caad537854ec1c61e211  freescale-2011.03-38-powerpc-linux-gnu.src.tar.bz2
-sha256 d6c94587d546197836e7e1a6909f6aabfa5879e91f501ab03088a6887cc242fc  mentor-2012.03-71-powerpc-mentor-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
-sha256 4964938da0108a9a5bcc295b0f504a3804021e6e6e596509ee085d9143711b50  mentor-2012.03-71-powerpc-mentor-linux-gnu.src.tar.bz2
 # SuperH
 sha256 59d6766fde244931aa52db01433d5acd051998762a931121c5fc109536a1a802  renesas-2012.09-61-sh-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
 sha256 e2e58c10e52395d5d35157e35f85233f713c6f9223a652dfc56194cfd2eed004  renesas-2012.09-61-sh-linux-gnu.src.tar.bz2
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk
index 4ec5797180..0ca4b9182a 100644
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk
@@ -339,12 +339,6 @@ TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SOURCE = mips-2016.05-8-mips-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.
 else ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_NIOSII),y)
 TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SITE = http://sourcery.mentor.com/public/gnu_toolchain/nios2-linux-gnu
 TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SOURCE = sourceryg++-2015.11-130-nios2-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
-else ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC_E500V2),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SITE = http://sourcery.mentor.com/public/gnu_toolchain/powerpc-mentor-linux-gnu
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SOURCE = mentor-2012.03-71-powerpc-mentor-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
-else ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_POWERPC),y)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SITE = http://sourcery.mentor.com/public/gnu_toolchain/powerpc-linux-gnu
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SOURCE = freescale-2011.03-38-powerpc-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
 else ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH),y)
 TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SITE = https://sourcery.mentor.com/public/gnu_toolchain/sh-linux-gnu
 TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_SOURCE = renesas-2012.09-61-sh-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2