In r132997, more than 10 years ago, grehan added -Wa,-mppc64bridge to a few Makefiles under sys/boot/powerpc.
Apparently this flag was required with the GNU as version of that time, but it does not seem to be necessary anymore. I tried building sys/boot/powerpc using gcc and gas, both with and without this flag, but the output was exactly identical.
Since clang does not support this flag, can we please dump it entirely?