diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/config.mk b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/config.mk
index 6f9093109f..ca06ed3d4f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/config.mk
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/config.mk
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2002
 # Gary Jennejohn, DENX Software Engineering, <garyj@denx.de>
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fno-common -ffixed-x18
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mbranch-protection=none)
 
 PF_NO_UNALIGNED := $(call cc-option, -mstrict-align)
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += $(PF_NO_UNALIGNED)