diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 9e3494a6a6..658dc03f76 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ endif
 	source "package/smartmontools/Config.in"
 	source "package/smstools3/Config.in"
 	source "package/snowball-hdmiservice/Config.in"
+	source "package/spi-tools/Config.in"
 	source "package/sredird/Config.in"
 	source "package/statserial/Config.in"
 	source "package/stm32flash/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/spi-tools/Config.in b/package/spi-tools/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8d2634444a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/spi-tools/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_SPI_TOOLS
+	bool "spi-tools"
+	help
+	  This package contains some simple command line tools to help
+	  using Linux spidev devices.
+
+	  https://github.com/cpb-/spi-tools
diff --git a/package/spi-tools/spi-tools.hash b/package/spi-tools/spi-tools.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..61ccd5ebdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/spi-tools/spi-tools.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# locally computed hash
+sha256	52ab1f1de29afbac95983f5af58adcb1807e1f3479a897e9331e020b5cfa296f  spi-tools-cc6a41fdcec60610703ba6db488c621c64952898.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/spi-tools/spi-tools.mk b/package/spi-tools/spi-tools.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f3df435346
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/spi-tools/spi-tools.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# spi-tools
+#
+################################################################################
+
+# git commit sha1 is used as there is no release tag with autotools support yet
+SPI_TOOLS_VERSION = cc6a41fdcec60610703ba6db488c621c64952898
+SPI_TOOLS_SITE = $(call github,cpb-,spi-tools,$(SPI_TOOLS_VERSION))
+# autoreconf must be run as specified in package documentation
+SPI_TOOLS_AUTORECONF = YES
+SPI_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPLv2
+SPI_TOOLS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+# Package attempts to use git to obtain version, that fails within Buildroot.
+# To avoid it, set the GIT_VERSION variable to the Buildroot package version.
+define SPI_TOOLS_SET_VERSION
+	$(SED) "s/^\(GIT_VERSION:=\).*/\1$(SPI_TOOLS_VERSION)/" \
+		$(@D)/src/Makefile.am
+endef
+
+SPI_TOOLS_POST_PATCH_HOOKS = SPI_TOOLS_SET_VERSION
+
+$(eval $(autotools-package))