diff --git a/Botan.changes b/Botan.changes
index 17b8c65..fa52c7c 100644
--- a/Botan.changes
+++ b/Botan.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Mar 10 21:35:25 UTC 2013 - schwab@suse.de
+
+- aarch64-support.patch: add support for aarch64
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Sep 14 20:08:15 UTC 2012 - p.drouand@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/Botan.spec b/Botan.spec
index 7b69aba..2c4803b 100644
--- a/Botan.spec
+++ b/Botan.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package Botan
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2012 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2013 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Patch2:         Botan-fix_install_paths.patch
 Patch4:         Botan-no-buildtime.patch
 Patch6:         Botan-fix_pkgconfig.patch 
 Patch7:         dont-set-mach-value.diff
+Patch8:         aarch64-support.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 Requires:       bzip2 >= 1.0.2
 Requires:       gmp >= 4.1
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ programs that use the Botan library.
 %patch4
 %patch6
 %patch7
+%patch8
 
 %build
 export RPM_OPT_FLAGS
diff --git a/aarch64-support.patch b/aarch64-support.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3096dbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aarch64-support.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Index: src/build-data/arch/aarch64.txt
+===================================================================
+--- /dev/null
++++ src/build-data/arch/aarch64.txt
+@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
++endian little
++
++<aliases>
++arm64
++armv8
++</aliases>