diff --git a/libvirt.changes b/libvirt.changes
index 5fe8ed9..c8c5e62 100644
--- a/libvirt.changes
+++ b/libvirt.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed May  6 09:51:21 MDT 2015 - jfehlig@suse.com
+
+- spec: build libxl driver for aarch64 and remove useless
+  'suse_version <= 1220' conditional
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue May  5 09:35:12 MDT 2015 - jfehlig@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libvirt.spec b/libvirt.spec
index 17dd3f7..8effdd6 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec
+++ b/libvirt.spec
@@ -102,17 +102,12 @@
 
 # Set the OS / architecture specific special cases
 
-# Xen is available only on x86_64
-%ifnarch x86_64
+# Xen is available only on x86_64 and arm
+%ifnarch x86_64 %arm aarch64
     %define with_xen           0
     %define with_libxl         0
 %endif
 
-# libxl is only compatible with Xen >= 4.2 (i.e. suse_version > 12.2)
-%if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1220
-    %define with_libxl         0
-%endif
-
 # numactl only on x86_64 and ia64
 %ifnarch x86_64 ia64
     %define with_numactl       0