diff --git a/alarm/libbcm2835/PKGBUILD b/alarm/libbcm2835/PKGBUILD
index ad665ca69..0dcb9349a 100644
--- a/alarm/libbcm2835/PKGBUILD
+++ b/alarm/libbcm2835/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
 # Maintainer: <nico.nell@gmail.com>
 # Maintainer: <andrea@archlinux.org>
 
-buildarch=20
+buildarch=28
 
 _pkgbasename=bcm2835
 pkgname=libbcm2835
-pkgver=1.50
-pkgrel=1 
+pkgver=1.51
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="C library for Broadcom BCM 2835 as used in Raspberry Pi"
 url="http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835/"
-arch=('armv6h' 'armv7h')
+arch=('armv6h' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
 license=('GPL')
 source=("http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/${_pkgbasename}/${_pkgbasename}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
-md5sums=('258caf3437012d09a651e1852d0bd60c')
+md5sums=('c36ad5d2f2305d8620cde0bc94fb57f7')
 
 build() {
   cd ${_pkgbasename}-${pkgver}
+  [[ $CARCH == "aarch64" ]] && CFLAGS+=" -fPIC" && CXXFLAGS+=" -fPIC"
   ./configure --prefix=/usr
   make
 }