diff --git a/openexr.changes b/openexr.changes
index 63d6b2c..33e269d 100644
--- a/openexr.changes
+++ b/openexr.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 15 18:56:44 CEST 2020 - ro@suse.de
+
+- Disable testsuite also on s390/s390x, probably will not pass
+  on any bigendian platform in current state 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jul 16 07:06:33 UTC 2020 - Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/openexr.spec b/openexr.spec
index 2e9b874..51221ef 100644
--- a/openexr.spec
+++ b/openexr.spec
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ pushd OpenEXR
 popd
 
 %check
-%ifnarch i586 ppc ppc64
+%ifnarch i586 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x
 pushd OpenEXR
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="%{buildroot}/%{_libdir}"
 # tests can take longer than the default timeout of 25 minutes