diff --git a/efl-1.23.1-no-neon.patch b/efl-1.23.1-no-neon.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0fe2fc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/efl-1.23.1-no-neon.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+diff -up efl-1.23.1/meson.build.noneon efl-1.23.1/meson.build
+--- efl-1.23.1/meson.build.noneon	2019-10-16 17:24:32.291167994 -0400
++++ efl-1.23.1/meson.build	2019-10-16 17:24:51.001778207 -0400
+@@ -169,12 +169,6 @@ if get_option('native-arch-optimization'
+     config_h.set10('BUILD_SSE3', true)
+     native_arch_opt_c_args = [ '-msse3' ]
+     message('x86 build - MMX + SSE3 enabled')
+-  elif host_machine.cpu_family() == 'arm'
+-    cpu_neon = true
+-    config_h.set10('BUILD_NEON', true)
+-    add_global_arguments('-mfpu=neon', language: 'c')
+-    add_global_arguments('-ftree-vectorize', language: 'c')
+-    message('ARM build - NEON enabled')
+   elif host_machine.cpu_family() == 'aarch64'
+     cpu_neon = true
+     cpu_neon_intrinsics = true
diff --git a/efl.spec b/efl.spec
index a495dac..7c0777a 100644
--- a/efl.spec
+++ b/efl.spec
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 %endif
 # PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (bad light userdata pointer)
 # Disabling luajit for aarch64
-%ifarch aarch64
-%global has_luajit 0
-%endif
+# %%ifarch aarch64
+# %%global has_luajit 0
+# %%endif
 
 # Look, you probably don't want this. scim is so 2012. ibus is the new hotness.
 # Enabling this means you'll almost certainly need to pass ECORE_IMF_MODULE=xim 
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ Source0:	http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/efl/efl-%{version}.tar.xz
 Patch1:		efl-1.17.1-old-nomodifier-in-drm_mode_fb_cmd2.patch
 # If luaL_reg is not defined, define it.
 Patch2:		efl-1.23.1-luajitfix.patch
+# Our armv7 builds do not use neon
+Patch3:		efl-1.23.1-no-neon.patch
 
 %ifnarch s390 s390x
 BuildRequires:	libunwind-devel
@@ -192,6 +194,7 @@ Development files for EFL.
 %patch1 -p1 -b .old
 %endif
 %patch2 -p1 -b .luajitfix
+%patch3 -p1 -b .noneon
 
 # This is why hardcoding paths is bad.
 # sed -i -e 's|/opt/efl-%{version}/share/|%{_datadir}/|' \