diff --git a/community/python-blosc/PKGBUILD b/community/python-blosc/PKGBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..628fcf1a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/python-blosc/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# $Id$
+# Maintainer: Andrzej Giniewicz <gginiu@gmail.com>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - patch to fix build on AArch64
+
+pkgbase=python-blosc
+pkgname=('python2-blosc' 'python-blosc')
+pkgver=1.4.4
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc="A Python wrapper for the extremely fast Blosc compression library"
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+url="http://python-blosc.blosc.org/"
+license=('MIT')
+makedepends=('python-setuptools' 'python2-setuptools' 'blosc')
+source=("https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+        'python-blosc-alt-arch.patch')
+md5sums=('8509bc06760a6a00f8a4e827302e9566'
+         'fabfde4dbf9e796ee620416ebd13b8da')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd "$srcdir/${pkgbase}-${pkgver}"
+  patch -p1 -i ../python-blosc-alt-arch.patch
+
+  cd "$srcdir"
+  cp -a ${pkgbase}-${pkgver} ${pkgbase}-py2-${pkgver}
+  cd ${pkgbase}-py2-${pkgver}
+
+  sed -e "s|#![ ]*/usr/bin/python$|#!/usr/bin/python2|" \
+      -e "s|#![ ]*/usr/bin/env python$|#!/usr/bin/env python2|" \
+      -e "s|#![ ]*/bin/env python$|#!/usr/bin/env python2|" \
+      -i $(find . -name '*.py')
+}
+
+build() {
+  msg "Building Python2"
+  cd "$srcdir"/${pkgbase}-py2-${pkgver}
+  python2 setup.py build_ext --inplace --blosc=/usr
+  python2 setup.py build
+
+  msg "Building Python3"
+  cd "$srcdir"/${pkgbase}-${pkgver}
+  python setup.py build_ext --inplace --blosc=/usr
+  python setup.py build
+}
+
+package_python2-blosc() {
+  depends=('python2' 'blosc')
+
+  cd "$srcdir"/${pkgbase}-py2-${pkgver}
+
+  python2 setup.py install --skip-build --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1
+
+  install -Dm644 LICENSES/PYTHON-BLOSC.txt "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE
+}
+
+package_python-blosc() {
+  depends=('python' 'blosc')
+
+  cd "$srcdir"/${pkgbase}-${pkgver}
+
+  python setup.py install --skip-build --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1
+
+  install -Dm644 LICENSES/PYTHON-BLOSC.txt "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE
+}
+
diff --git a/community/python-blosc/python-blosc-alt-arch.patch b/community/python-blosc/python-blosc-alt-arch.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3a7509f77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/python-blosc/python-blosc-alt-arch.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+diff -up python-blosc-1.4.1/setup.py.alt-arch python-blosc-1.4.1/setup.py
+--- python-blosc-1.4.1/setup.py.alt-arch	2017-01-05 15:53:42.581675095 +0100
++++ python-blosc-1.4.1/setup.py	2017-01-05 15:54:06.361675095 +0100
+@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import sys
+ from setuptools import Extension
+ from setuptools import setup
+ from glob import glob
+-import cpuinfo
+ 
+ ########### Check versions ##########
+ 
+@@ -93,26 +93,6 @@ else:
+     inc_dirs += glob('c-blosc/internal-complibs/zstd*/common')
+     def_macros += [('HAVE_LZ4', 1), ('HAVE_SNAPPY', 1), ('HAVE_ZLIB', 1), ('HAVE_ZSTD', 1)]
+ 
+-    # Guess SSE2 or AVX2 capabilities
+-    cpu_info = cpuinfo.get_cpu_info()
+-    # SSE2
+-    if 'sse2' in cpu_info['flags']:
+-        print('SSE2 detected')
+-        CFLAGS.append('-DSHUFFLE_SSE2_ENABLED')
+-        sources += [f for f in glob('c-blosc/blosc/*.c') if 'sse2' in f]
+-        if os.name == 'posix':
+-            CFLAGS.append('-msse2')
+-        elif os.name == 'nt':
+-            def_macros += [('__SSE2__', 1)]
+-    # AVX2
+-    if 'avx2' in cpu_info['flags']:
+-        print('AVX2 detected')
+-        CFLAGS.append('-DSHUFFLE_AVX2_ENABLED')
+-        sources += [f for f in glob('c-blosc/blosc/*.c') if 'avx2' in f]
+-        if os.name == 'posix':
+-            CFLAGS.append('-mavx2')
+-        elif os.name == 'nt':
+-            def_macros += [('__AVX2__', 1)]
+ 
+ classifiers = """\
+ Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable