diff --git a/arch/arm/config.mk b/arch/arm/config.mk
index a3e14a8..8fa57ec 100644
--- a/arch/arm/config.mk
+++ b/arch/arm/config.mk
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@
 # instruction. Relocation is not supported for that case, so disable
 # such usage by requiring word relocations.
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -mword-relocations)
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-pic)
 endif
 
 # limit ourselves to the sections we want in the .bin.