diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/ext/spe1.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/ext/spe1.C
deleted file mode 100644
index b98d4b27b3d..00000000000
--- a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/ext/spe1.C
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-/* { dg-do compile } */
-/* { dg-options "-mcpu=8540 -mspe -mabi=spe -mfloat-gprs=single -O0" } */
-/* { dg-skip-if "not an SPE target" { ! powerpc_spe_nocache } } */
-
-typedef int v2si __attribute__ ((vector_size (8)));
-
-/* The two specializations must be considered different.  */
-template <class T> class X		    { };
-template <>        class X<__ev64_opaque__> { };
-template <>        class X<v2si>	    { };
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/opaque-1.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/opaque-1.C
deleted file mode 100644
index 669776b9f97..00000000000
--- a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/opaque-1.C
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-/* { dg-do run } */
-/* { dg-options "-mcpu=8540 -mspe -mabi=spe -mfloat-gprs=single" } */
-/* { dg-skip-if "not an SPE target" { ! powerpc_spe_nocache } } */
-
-#define __vector __attribute__((vector_size(8)))
-typedef float __vector __ev64_fs__;
-
-__ev64_fs__ f;
-__ev64_opaque__ o;
-
-int here = 0;
-
-void bar (__ev64_opaque__ x)
-{
-  here = 0;
-}
-
-void bar (__ev64_fs__ x)
-{
-  here = 888;
-}
-
-int main ()
-{
-  f = o;
-  o = f;
-  bar (f);
-  if (here != 888)
-    return 1;
-  return 0;
-}
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/opaque-2.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/opaque-2.C
deleted file mode 100644
index 414f87e6c9a..00000000000
--- a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/opaque-2.C
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-/* { dg-do compile } */
-/* { dg-options "-mcpu=8540 -mspe -mabi=spe -mfloat-gprs=single" } */
-/* { dg-skip-if "not an SPE target" { ! powerpc_spe_nocache } } */
-
-#define __vector __attribute__((vector_size(8)))
-typedef float __vector __ev64_fs__;
-
-__ev64_fs__ f;
-__ev64_opaque__ o;
-
-extern void bar (__ev64_opaque__);
-
-int main ()
-{
-  f = o;
-  o = f;
-  bar (f);
-  return 0;
-}
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/opaque-3.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/opaque-3.C
deleted file mode 100644
index f915f840510..00000000000
--- a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/opaque-3.C
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-/* { dg-do compile } */
-/* { dg-options "-mcpu=8540 -mspe -mabi=spe -mfloat-gprs=single" } */
-/* { dg-skip-if "not an SPE target" { ! powerpc_spe_nocache } } */
-
-__ev64_opaque__ o;
-#define v __attribute__((vector_size(8)))
-v unsigned int *p;
-
-void m()
-{
-  o = __builtin_spe_evldd(p, 5);
-}
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.target/powerpc/simd-5.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.target/powerpc/simd-5.C
deleted file mode 100644
index 71e117ead2a..00000000000
--- a/gcc/testsuite/g++.target/powerpc/simd-5.C
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-// Test EH with V2SI SIMD registers actually restores correct values.
-// Origin: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
-// { dg-options "-O" }
-// { dg-do run { target { powerpc_spe && { ! *-*-vxworks* } } } }
-
-extern "C" void abort (void);
-extern "C" int memcmp (const void *, const void *, __SIZE_TYPE__);
-typedef int __attribute__((vector_size (8))) v2si;
-
-v2si a = { 1, 2 };
-v2si b = { 3, 4 };
-v2si c = { 4, 6 };
-volatile v2si r;
-v2si r2;
-
-void
-f ()
-{
-  register v2si v asm("r15");
-  v = __builtin_spe_evaddw (b, c);
-  asm volatile ("" : "+r" (v));
-  r = v;
-  throw 1;
-}
-
-int
-main ()
-{
-  register v2si v asm("r15");
-  v = __builtin_spe_evaddw (a, b);
-  asm volatile ("" : "+r" (v));
-  try
-    {
-      f ();
-    }
-  catch (int)
-    {
-      r = v;
-      r2 = r;
-      if (memcmp (&r2, &c, sizeof (v2si)))
-	abort ();
-    }
-  return 0;
-}
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp b/gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp
index b860cb679bf..dc21dc3a06c 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp
@@ -2584,7 +2584,6 @@ proc check_ppc_cpu_supports_hw_available { } {
 	# Some simulators are known to not support VSX/power8 instructions.
 	# For now, disable on Darwin
 	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi]
-	     || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe]
 	     || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
@@ -2638,7 +2637,6 @@ proc check_p8vector_hw_available { } {
 	# Some simulators are known to not support VSX/power8 instructions.
 	# For now, disable on Darwin
 	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi]
-	     || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe]
 	     || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
@@ -2666,7 +2664,6 @@ proc check_p9vector_hw_available { } {
 	# Some simulators are known to not support VSX/power8/power9
 	# instructions.	For now, disable on Darwin.
 	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi]
-	     || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe]
 	     || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
@@ -2711,7 +2708,6 @@ proc check_p9modulo_hw_available { } {
 	# Some simulators are known to not support VSX/power8/power9
 	# instructions.	For now, disable on Darwin.
 	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi]
-	     || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe]
 	     || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
@@ -2783,7 +2779,6 @@ proc check_ppc_float128_sw_available { } {
 	# instructions.	For now, disable on Darwin and VxWorks.
 	if { [istarget *-*-vxworks*]
 	     || [istarget powerpc-*-eabi]
-	     || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe]
 	     || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
@@ -2810,7 +2805,6 @@ proc check_ppc_float128_hw_available { } {
 	# instructions.	For now, disable on Darwin.
 	if { [istarget *-*-vxworks*]
 	     || [istarget powerpc-*-eabi]
-	     || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe]
 	     || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
@@ -2987,7 +2981,6 @@ proc check_vsx_hw_available { } {
 	# Some simulators are known to not support VSX instructions.
 	# For now, disable on Darwin
 	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi]
-	     || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe]
 	     || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
@@ -3013,7 +3006,7 @@ proc check_vsx_hw_available { } {
 proc check_vmx_hw_available { } {
     return [check_cached_effective_target vmx_hw_available {
 	# Some simulators are known to not support VMX instructions.
-	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi] || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe] } {
+	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi] } {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
 	    # Most targets don't require special flags for this test case, but
@@ -3044,7 +3037,7 @@ proc check_ppc_recip_hw_available { } {
     return [check_cached_effective_target ppc_recip_hw_available {
 	# Some simulators may not support FRE/FRES/FRSQRTE/FRSQRTES
 	# For now, disable on Darwin
-	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi] || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe] || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
+	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi] || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
 	    set options "-mpowerpc-gfxopt -mpowerpc-gpopt -mpopcntb"
@@ -3958,7 +3951,7 @@ proc check_effective_target_unsigned_char {} {
 proc check_dfp_hw_available { } {
     return [check_cached_effective_target dfp_hw_available {
 	# For now, disable on Darwin
-	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi] || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe] || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
+	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi] || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
 	    check_runtime_nocache dfp_hw_available {
@@ -4032,8 +4025,7 @@ proc check_effective_target_vect_cmdline_needed { } {
 	     || (([istarget i?86-*-*] || [istarget x86_64-*-*])
 		 && ![is-effective-target ia32])
 	     || ([istarget powerpc*-*-*]
-		 && ([check_effective_target_powerpc_spe]
-		     || [check_effective_target_powerpc_altivec]))
+		 && [check_effective_target_powerpc_altivec])
 	     || ([istarget sparc*-*-*] && [check_effective_target_sparc_vis])
 	     || ([istarget arm*-*-*] && [check_effective_target_arm_neon])
 	     || [istarget aarch64*-*-*]
@@ -7202,7 +7194,7 @@ proc check_effective_target_powerpc_htm_ok { } {
 proc check_htm_hw_available { } {
     return [check_cached_effective_target htm_hw_available {
 	# For now, disable on Darwin
-	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi] || [istarget powerpc*-*-eabispe] || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
+	if { [istarget powerpc-*-eabi] || [istarget *-*-darwin*]} {
 	    expr 0
 	} else {
 	    check_runtime_nocache htm_hw_available {
@@ -7244,39 +7236,6 @@ proc check_effective_target_powerpc_spu { } {
     }
 }

-# Return 1 if this is a PowerPC SPE target.  The check includes options
-# specified by dg-options for this test, so don't cache the result.
-
-proc check_effective_target_powerpc_spe_nocache { } {
-    if { [istarget powerpc*-*-*] } {
-	return [check_no_compiler_messages_nocache powerpc_spe object {
-	    #ifndef __SPE__
-	    #error not SPE
-	    #else
-	    int dummy;
-	    #endif
-	} [current_compiler_flags]]
-    } else {
-	return 0
-    }
-}
-
-# Return 1 if this is a PowerPC target with SPE enabled.
-
-proc check_effective_target_powerpc_spe { } {
-    if { [istarget powerpc*-*-*] } {
-	return [check_no_compiler_messages powerpc_spe object {
-	    #ifndef __SPE__
-	    #error not SPE
-	    #else
-	    int dummy;
-	    #endif
-	}]
-    } else {
-	return 0
-    }
-}
-
 # Return 1 if this is a PowerPC target with Altivec enabled.

 proc check_effective_target_powerpc_altivec { } {
