diff --git a/ghc.changes b/ghc.changes
index e045819..09978f5 100644
--- a/ghc.changes
+++ b/ghc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb 17 09:09:17 UTC 2016 - peter.trommler@ohm-hochschule.de
+
+- limit parallel jobs to two on aarch64
+* aarch64 runs out of memory with too many parallel compiles 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Feb 14 13:55:46 UTC 2016 - peter.trommler@ohm-hochschule.de
 
diff --git a/ghc.spec b/ghc.spec
index b6917be..585b726 100644
--- a/ghc.spec
+++ b/ghc.spec
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ BUILD_DOCBOOK_HTML   = NO
 HSCOLOUR_SRCS        = NO
 EOF
 ./configure --prefix=%{_builddir}/ghc-boot --with-system-libffi
-%ifnarch s390 s390x
+%ifnarch aarch64 s390 s390x
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 %else
 make -j 2
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS:-%optflags}"
   %{?ghc_boot:--with-ghc=%{_builddir}/ghc-boot/bin/ghc} \
   --with-system-libffi
 
-%ifnarch s390 s390x
+%ifnarch aarch64 s390 s390x
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 %else
 make -j 2