diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index ef15caa4d320..b50377ec3ab5 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -116,33 +116,8 @@ endif
 
 cflags-y += -ffreestanding
 
-#
-# We explicitly add the endianness specifier if needed, this allows
-# to compile kernels with a toolchain for the other endianness. We
-# carefully avoid to add it redundantly because gcc 3.3/3.4 complains
-# when fed the toolchain default!
-#
-# Certain gcc versions up to gcc 4.1.1 (probably 4.2-subversion as of
-# 2006-10-10 don't properly change the predefined symbols if -EB / -EL
-# are used, so we kludge that here.  A bug has been filed at
-# http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29413.
-#
-# clang doesn't suffer from these issues and our checks against -dumpmachine
-# don't work so well when cross compiling, since without providing --target
-# clang's output will be based upon the build machine. So for clang we simply
-# unconditionally specify -EB or -EL as appropriate.
-#
-ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
 cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= -EB
 cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= -EL
-else
-undef-all += -UMIPSEB -U_MIPSEB -U__MIPSEB -U__MIPSEB__
-undef-all += -UMIPSEL -U_MIPSEL -U__MIPSEL -U__MIPSEL__
-predef-be += -DMIPSEB -D_MIPSEB -D__MIPSEB -D__MIPSEB__
-predef-le += -DMIPSEL -D_MIPSEL -D__MIPSEL -D__MIPSEL__
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(shell $(CC) -dumpmachine |grep -q 'mips.*el-.*' && echo -EB $(undef-all) $(predef-be))
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= $(shell $(CC) -dumpmachine |grep -q 'mips.*el-.*' || echo -EL $(undef-all) $(predef-le))
-endif
 
 cflags-$(CONFIG_SB1XXX_CORELIS)	+= $(call cc-option,-mno-sched-prolog) \
 				   -fno-omit-frame-pointer