diff --git a/package/llvm/Config.in b/package/llvm/Config.in
index 1d21d879da..6ec2ffcfe6 100644
--- a/package/llvm/Config.in
+++ b/package/llvm/Config.in
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LLVM_RTTI
 
 	  https://llvm.org/docs/HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.html
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_LLVM_BPF
+	bool "BPF backend"
+	help
+	  Build BPF target. Select this option if you are going
+	  to install bcc on the target.
+
 endif
 
 comment "llvm needs a toolchain w/ wchar, threads, C++, gcc >= 4.8, dynamic library"
diff --git a/package/llvm/llvm.mk b/package/llvm/llvm.mk
index 7d60fe7f8c..6c721c30b9 100644
--- a/package/llvm/llvm.mk
+++ b/package/llvm/llvm.mk
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LLVM_AMDGPU),y)
 LLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD += AMDGPU
 endif
 
+# Build BPF backend
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LLVM_BPF),y)
+LLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD += BPF
+endif
+
 # Use native llvm-tblgen from host-llvm (needed for cross-compilation)
 LLVM_CONF_OPTS += -DLLVM_TABLEGEN=$(HOST_DIR)/bin/llvm-tblgen