diff --git a/libavcodec/ppc/dsputil_altivec.h b/libavcodec/ppc/dsputil_altivec.h
index 7762d34340..846b4c4d68 100644
--- a/libavcodec/ppc/dsputil_altivec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/ppc/dsputil_altivec.h
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@
 
 #include "dsputil_ppc.h"
 
-#ifdef HAVE_ALTIVEC
-
 extern int has_altivec(void);
 
 void put_pixels16_altivec(uint8_t *block, const uint8_t *pixels, int line_size, int h);
@@ -112,6 +110,4 @@ static inline vector unsigned char unaligned_load(int offset, uint8_t *src)
     return vec_perm(first, second, mask);
 }
 
-#endif /* HAVE_ALTIVEC */
-
 #endif /* DSPUTIL_ALTIVEC_H */
diff --git a/libavcodec/ppc/h264_altivec.c b/libavcodec/ppc/h264_altivec.c
index cb13aadc4e..ef86a528d8 100644
--- a/libavcodec/ppc/h264_altivec.c
+++ b/libavcodec/ppc/h264_altivec.c
@@ -868,7 +868,6 @@ static void h264_h_loop_filter_luma_altivec(uint8_t *pix, int stride, int alpha,
 
 void dsputil_h264_init_ppc(DSPContext* c, AVCodecContext *avctx) {
 
-#ifdef HAVE_ALTIVEC
   if (has_altivec()) {
     c->put_h264_chroma_pixels_tab[0] = put_h264_chroma_mc8_altivec;
     c->put_no_rnd_h264_chroma_pixels_tab[0] = put_no_rnd_h264_chroma_mc8_altivec;
@@ -899,12 +898,5 @@ void dsputil_h264_init_ppc(DSPContext* c, AVCodecContext *avctx) {
     dspfunc(put_h264_qpel, 0, 16);
     dspfunc(avg_h264_qpel, 0, 16);
 #undef dspfunc
-
-  } else
-#endif /* HAVE_ALTIVEC */
-  {
-    // Non-AltiVec PPC optimisations
-
-    // ... pending ...
   }
 }