Release Notes: Overriding PPC64 and PPC64LE ABI defaults is not yet supported.

I wrongly included a description of a patch that came in after 3.5 branched
and has not been backported.

Thanks,
Bill

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@ -191,9 +191,8 @@ now fully supported. This includes support for the Altivec instruction set.
The Power Architecture 64-Bit ELFv2 ABI Specification is now supported, and
is the default ABI for Little Endian. The ELFv1 ABI remains the default ABI
for Big Endian. Although use of ELFv1 on Little Endian or ELFv2 on Big
Endian can be selected via command-line option, this is not recommended or
even advisable.
for Big Endian. Currently, it is not possible to override these defaults.
That capability will be available (albeit not recommended) in a future release.
Links to the ELFv2 ABI specification and to the Power ISA Version 2.07
specification may be found `here <https://www-03.ibm.com/technologyconnect/tgcm/TGCMServlet.wss?alias=OpenPOWER&linkid=1n0000>`_ (free registration required).