diff --git a/core/linux-aarch64-rc/0001-arm64-dts-qcom-Fix-broken-interrupt-trigger-settings.patch b/core/linux-aarch64-rc/0001-arm64-dts-qcom-Fix-broken-interrupt-trigger-settings.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3aa8743b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/linux-aarch64-rc/0001-arm64-dts-qcom-Fix-broken-interrupt-trigger-settings.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+From 162ae1d7fdcd03d424a27fa726ca76b2effd4f8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@arm.com>
+Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:50:50 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: Fix broken interrupt trigger settings
+
+When a device uses the GIC as its interrupt controller and generates
+SPIs, only the values 1 (edge rising) and 4 (level high) are legal.
+
+Anything else is just plain wrong (can't be programmed into the HW),
+and leads to aborted driver probes (USB doesn't work with 4.8-rc1
+on a Dragonboard 410C).
+
+Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
+Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
+---
+ arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi | 10 +++++-----
+ arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi |  2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi
+index 11bdc24..b010d33 100644
+--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi
++++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi
+@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@
+ 			compatible = "qcom,ci-hdrc";
+ 			reg = <0x78d9000 0x400>;
+ 			dr_mode = "peripheral";
+-			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 134 IRQ_TYPE_NONE>;
++			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 134 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ 			usb-phy = <&usb_otg>;
+ 			status = "disabled";
+ 		};
+@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@
+ 		usb_host: ehci@78d9000 {
+ 			compatible = "qcom,ehci-host";
+ 			reg = <0x78d9000 0x400>;
+-			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 134 IRQ_TYPE_NONE>;
++			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 134 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ 			usb-phy = <&usb_otg>;
+ 			status = "disabled";
+ 		};
+@@ -499,8 +499,8 @@
+ 		usb_otg: phy@78d9000 {
+ 			compatible = "qcom,usb-otg-snps";
+ 			reg = <0x78d9000 0x400>;
+-			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 134 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH>,
+-				     <GIC_SPI 140 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_RISING>;
++			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 134 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
++				     <GIC_SPI 140 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ 
+ 			qcom,vdd-levels = <500000 1000000 1320000>;
+ 			qcom,phy-init-sequence = <0x44 0x6B 0x24 0x13>;
+@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@
+ 			      <0x200a000 0x002100>;
+ 			reg-names = "core", "chnls", "obsrvr", "intr", "cnfg";
+ 			interrupt-names = "periph_irq";
+-			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 190 IRQ_TYPE_NONE>;
++			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 190 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ 			qcom,ee = <0>;
+ 			qcom,channel = <0>;
+ 			#address-cells = <2>;
+diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi
+index 55ec3e8..69ed6e1 100644
+--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi
++++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi
+@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
+ 			      <0x400a000 0x002100>;
+ 			reg-names = "core", "chnls", "obsrvr", "intr", "cnfg";
+ 			interrupt-names = "periph_irq";
+-			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 326 IRQ_TYPE_NONE>;
++			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 326 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ 			qcom,ee = <0>;
+ 			qcom,channel = <0>;
+ 			#address-cells = <2>;
+-- 
+2.9.3
+
diff --git a/core/linux-aarch64-rc/PKGBUILD b/core/linux-aarch64-rc/PKGBUILD
index 3c293afa9..b0248aa82 100644
--- a/core/linux-aarch64-rc/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/linux-aarch64-rc/PKGBUILD
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ _srcname=linux-4.$((${_rcver##*.}-1))
 _kernelname=${pkgbase#linux}
 _desc="AArch64 multi-platform (release candidate)"
 pkgver=${_rcver}.rc${_rcrel}
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 arch=('aarch64')
 url="http://www.kernel.org/"
 license=('GPL2')
@@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ options=('!strip')
 source=("http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/${_srcname}.tar.xz"
         "https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/testing/patch-${_rcver}-rc${_rcrel}.xz"
         #"https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/testing/${_srcname}.tar.xz"
+        '0001-arm64-dts-qcom-Fix-broken-interrupt-trigger-settings.patch'
         'config'
         'linux.preset')
 md5sums=('5276563eb1f39a048e4a8a887408c031'
          'fa0b8dbf79226c52cf0e97bb316bf769'
+         '395e261e50cb231cb6377efdb06a8171'
          '4bfc0807368b3d1b9d4a5860159cd01a'
          '25d8f6983c9a616946848c0e075a949c')
 
@@ -34,6 +36,9 @@ prepare() {
   # add upstream patch
   patch -sp1 -i ../patch-${_rcver}-rc${_rcrel}
 
+  # ALARM patches
+  git apply ../0001-arm64-dts-qcom-Fix-broken-interrupt-trigger-settings.patch
+
   cat "${srcdir}/config" > ./.config
 
   # add pkgrel to extraversion