diff --git a/srcpkgs/SuiteSparse/patches/ppc32.patch b/srcpkgs/SuiteSparse/patches/ppc32.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..234fa06d013
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/SuiteSparse/patches/ppc32.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+commit e483b8506640797a09ea30c126c081ea4070b2e2
+Author: q66 <daniel@octaforge.org>
+Date:   Mon Feb 28 19:15:39 2022 +0100
+
+    prevent cpu_features from shitting itself on ppc32
+
+diff --git a/GraphBLAS/cpu_features/src/impl_ppc_linux.c b/GraphBLAS/cpu_features/src/impl_ppc_linux.c
+index 13a381a..fa72eee 100644
+--- a/GraphBLAS/cpu_features/src/impl_ppc_linux.c
++++ b/GraphBLAS/cpu_features/src/impl_ppc_linux.c
+@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@
+   LINE(PPC_SCV, scv, "scv", 0, PPC_FEATURE2_SCV)                               \
+   LINE(PPC_HTM_NO_SUSPEND, htm_no_suspend, "htm-no-suspend", 0,                \
+        PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND)
++
++#ifdef PPC
++#undef PPC
++#endif
++
+ #define INTROSPECTION_PREFIX PPC
+ #define INTROSPECTION_ENUM_PREFIX PPC
+ #include "define_introspection_and_hwcaps.inl"