diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 56c3793..20915e3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -115,11 +115,15 @@ endif
 ifeq ($(UNAME_M),amd64)
 	CFLAGS += -mavx -mavx2 -mfma -mf16c
 endif
-ifeq ($(UNAME_M),ppc64le)
+ifneq ($(filter ppc64%,$(UNAME_M)),)
 	POWER9_M := $(shell grep "POWER9" /proc/cpuinfo)
 	ifneq (,$(findstring POWER9,$(POWER9_M)))
 		CFLAGS += -mpower9-vector
 	endif
+	# Require c++23's std::byteswap for big-endian support.
+	ifeq ($(UNAME_M),ppc64)
+		CXXFLAGS += -std=c++23 -DGGML_BIG_ENDIAN
+	endif
 endif
 ifndef WHISPER_NO_ACCELERATE
 	# Mac M1 - include Accelerate framework
diff --git a/ggml.c b/ggml.c
index 16f0f85..d2a5053 100644
--- a/ggml.c
+++ b/ggml.c
@@ -339,8 +339,12 @@ int64_t ggml_cycles_per_ms(void) {
 #if defined(__cpp_lib_hardware_interference_size)
 #define CACHE_LINE_SIZE hardware_destructive_interference_size
 #else
+#if defined(__POWER9_VECTOR__)
+#define CACHE_LINE_SIZE 128
+#else
 #define CACHE_LINE_SIZE 64
 #endif
+#endif
 
 static const size_t CACHE_LINE_SIZE_F32 = CACHE_LINE_SIZE/sizeof(float);
 
@@ -609,9 +613,12 @@ static const size_t CACHE_LINE_SIZE_F32 = CACHE_LINE_SIZE/sizeof(float);
 #define GGML_F16_VEC_LOAD(p, i) (i & 0x1) ?                   \
   vec_extract_fp32_from_shorth(vec_xl(0, p - GGML_F16_EPR)) : \
   vec_extract_fp32_from_shortl(vec_xl(0, p))
-#define GGML_F16_VEC_STORE(p, r, i)                                      \
-  if (i & 0x1)                                                           \
-    vec_xst(vec_pack_to_short_fp32(r[i], r[i - 1]), 0, p - GGML_F16_EPR)
+#define GGML_ENDIAN_BYTE(i) ((unsigned char *)&(uint16_t){1})[i]
+#define GGML_F16_VEC_STORE(p, r, i)                             \
+  if (i & 0x1)                                                  \
+    vec_xst(vec_pack_to_short_fp32(r[i - GGML_ENDIAN_BYTE(1)],  \
+                                   r[i - GGML_ENDIAN_BYTE(0)]), \
+            0, p - GGML_F16_EPR)
 
 #elif defined(__wasm_simd128__)
 
diff --git a/whisper.cpp b/whisper.cpp
index 81458a5..d12cc4a 100644
--- a/whisper.cpp
+++ b/whisper.cpp
@@ -17,6 +17,68 @@
 #include <regex>
 #include <random>
 
+#if defined(GGML_BIG_ENDIAN)
+#include <bit>
+
+template<typename T>
+static T byteswap(T value) {
+    return std::byteswap(value);
+}
+
+template<>
+float byteswap(float value) {
+    return std::bit_cast<float>(byteswap(std::bit_cast<std::uint32_t>(value)));
+}
+
+template<typename T>
+static void byteswap_tensor_data(ggml_tensor * tensor) {
+    T * datum = reinterpret_cast<T *>(tensor->data);
+    for (int i = 0; i < ggml_nelements(tensor); i++) {
+        datum[i] = byteswap(datum[i]);
+    }
+}
+
+static void byteswap_tensor(ggml_tensor * tensor) {
+    switch (tensor->type) {
+        case GGML_TYPE_I16: {
+            byteswap_tensor_data<int16_t>(tensor);
+            break;
+        }
+        case GGML_TYPE_F16: {
+            byteswap_tensor_data<ggml_fp16_t>(tensor);
+            break;
+        }
+        case GGML_TYPE_I32: {
+            byteswap_tensor_data<int32_t>(tensor);
+            break;
+        }
+        case GGML_TYPE_F32: {
+            byteswap_tensor_data<float>(tensor);
+            break;
+        }
+        default: { // GML_TYPE_I8
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#define BYTESWAP_VALUE(d) d = byteswap(d)
+#define BYTESWAP_FILTERS(f)            \
+    do {                              \
+        for (auto & datum : f.data) { \
+            datum = byteswap(datum);  \
+        }                             \
+    } while (0)
+#define BYTESWAP_TENSOR(t)       \
+    do {                         \
+        byteswap_tensor(tensor); \
+    } while (0)
+#else
+#define BYTESWAP_VALUE(d) do {} while (0)
+#define BYTESWAP_FILTERS(f) do {} while (0)
+#define BYTESWAP_TENSOR(t) do {} while (0)
+#endif
+
 #define WHISPER_ASSERT(x) \
     do { \
         if (!(x)) { \
@@ -521,6 +583,7 @@ struct whisper_context {
 template<typename T>
 static void read_safe(whisper_model_loader * loader, T & dest) {
     loader->read(loader->context, &dest, sizeof(T));
+    BYTESWAP_VALUE(dest);
 }
 
 static bool kv_cache_init(
@@ -733,6 +796,7 @@ static bool whisper_model_load(struct whisper_model_loader * loader, whisper_con
 
         filters.data.resize(filters.n_mel * filters.n_fft);
         loader->read(loader->context, filters.data.data(), filters.data.size() * sizeof(float));
+        BYTESWAP_FILTERS(filters);
     }
 
     // load vocab
@@ -1196,6 +1260,7 @@ static bool whisper_model_load(struct whisper_model_loader * loader, whisper_con
             }
 
             loader->read(loader->context, tensor->data, ggml_nbytes(tensor));
+            BYTESWAP_TENSOR(tensor);
 
             //printf("%48s - [%5d, %5d, %5d], type = %6s, %6.2f MB\n", name.data(), ne[0], ne[1], ne[2], ftype == 0 ? "float" : "f16", ggml_nbytes(tensor)/1024.0/1024.0);
             total_size += ggml_nbytes(tensor);