diff --git a/profiles/arch/arm/package.use.mask b/profiles/arch/arm/package.use.mask
index c8d54008909a9..3f665f8a9fed7 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/arm/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/arch/arm/package.use.mask
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (25 Feb 2019)
+# (SM)BIOS/Thunderbolt outside of amd64/x86? - citation needed
+sys-apps/fwupd dell thunderbolt
+
 # Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org> (14 Jan 2019)
 # Requires dev-php/pecl-imagick which is not keyworded on arm
 www-apps/nextcloud imagemagick