Alexei, I tried to build bpfilter on sparc64 and it shows that CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT is an x86 specific Kconfig value.
And, even if I added it, it's not clear what it should even be set to. Right now, for example, my userland builds default to 32-bit sparc even though I'm building a 64-bit kernel. I think what ends up happening has to be in some way in response to what kind of "native" binaries HOSTCC is actually building.