diff --git a/core/pacman/PKGBUILD b/core/pacman/PKGBUILD
index 4fe5eb9ca..7ff643c6c 100644
--- a/core/pacman/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/pacman/PKGBUILD
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ package() {
       mychost="armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf"
       myflags="-march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=vfpv3-d16 "
       ;;
+    aarch64)
+      mycarch="aarch64"
+      mychost="aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu"
+      myflags="-march=armv8-a "
+      ;;
   esac
 
   # set things correctly in the default conf file