diff --git a/patterns-base.changes b/patterns-base.changes
index 6cd7840..855f6da 100644
--- a/patterns-base.changes
+++ b/patterns-base.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jan  7 14:17:14 UTC 2019 - Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- recommend grub2-*arm*efi variants for arm/arm64 (bsc#1120804)
+- recommend shim for aarch64
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan  4 08:49:47 UTC 2019 - Dominique Leuenberger <dleuenberger@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/patterns-base.spec b/patterns-base.spec
index 52031c7..6006809 100644
--- a/patterns-base.spec
+++ b/patterns-base.spec
@@ -200,6 +200,13 @@ Recommends:     branding-SLE
 Recommends:     shim
 Recommends:     grub2-x86_64-efi
 %endif
+%ifarch aarch64
+Recommends:     shim
+Recommends:     grub2-arm64-efi
+%endif
+%ifarch %arm
+Recommends:     grub2-arm-efi
+%endif
 %ifarch ppc ppc64 ppc64le
 %if !0%{?is_opensuse}
 Recommends:     lshw