diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/dmidecode/dmidecode_2.12.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/dmidecode/dmidecode_2.12.bb
index 000d2cd3cd..fb2c62a20c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/dmidecode/dmidecode_2.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/dmidecode/dmidecode_2.12.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ PR = "r0"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/dmidecode/${BP}.tar.bz2"
 
-COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86|x86_64).*-linux"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86|x86_64|aarch64|arm).*-linux"
 
 do_install() {
 	oe_runmake DESTDIR="${D}" install