diff --git a/package/systemd/Config.in b/package/systemd/Config.in
index f1cd465c81..85dcf07639 100644
--- a/package/systemd/Config.in
+++ b/package/systemd/Config.in
@@ -100,6 +100,16 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_VCONSOLE
 
 	  http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-vconsole-setup.service.html
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_BOOTCHART
+	bool "enable bootchart tool"
+	help
+	  systemd-bootchart is a tool, usually run at system startup,
+	  that collects the CPU load, disk load, memory usage, as well
+	  as per-process information from a running system. Collected
+	  results are output as an SVG graph.
+
+	  http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-bootchart.html
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_NETWORKD
 	bool "enable network manager"
 	help
diff --git a/package/systemd/systemd.mk b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
index 124119fb27..626638836f 100644
--- a/package/systemd/systemd.mk
+++ b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
@@ -143,6 +143,12 @@ else
 SYSTEMD_CONF_OPTS += --disable-vconsole
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_BOOTCHART),y)
+SYSTEMD_CONF_OPTS += --enable-bootchart
+else
+SYSTEMD_CONF_OPTS += --disable-bootchart
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_NETWORKD),y)
 SYSTEMD_CONF_OPTS += --enable-networkd
 define SYSTEMD_INSTALL_RESOLVCONF_HOOK