diff --git a/package/nodejs/nodejs.mk b/package/nodejs/nodejs.mk
index b0d5c49dae..3bd6a1c4dd 100644
--- a/package/nodejs/nodejs.mk
+++ b/package/nodejs/nodejs.mk
@@ -96,6 +96,19 @@ else ifeq ($(BR2_arm),y)
 NODEJS_CPU = arm
 # V8 needs to know what floating point ABI the target is using.
 NODEJS_ARM_FP = $(GCC_TARGET_FLOAT_ABI)
+# it also wants to know which FPU to use, but only has support for
+# vfp, vfpv3, vfpv3-d16 and neon.
+ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_FPU_VFPV2),y)
+NODEJS_ARM_FPU = vfp
+# vfpv4 is a superset of vfpv3
+else ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_FPU_VFPV3)$(BR2_ARM_FPU_VFPV4),y)
+NODEJS_ARM_FPU = vfpv3
+# vfpv4-d16 is a superset of vfpv3-d16
+else ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_FPU_VFPV3D16)$(BR2_ARM_FPU_VFPV4D16),y)
+NODEJS_ARM_FPU = vfpv3-d16
+else ifeq ($(BR2_ARM_FPU_NEON),y)
+NODEJS_ARM_FPU = neon
+endif
 else ifeq ($(BR2_aarch64),y)
 NODEJS_CPU = arm64
 endif
@@ -125,6 +138,7 @@ define NODEJS_CONFIGURE_CMDS
 		--prefix=/usr \
 		--dest-cpu=$(NODEJS_CPU) \
 		$(if $(NODEJS_ARM_FP),--with-arm-float-abi=$(NODEJS_ARM_FP)) \
+		$(if $(NODEJS_ARM_FPU),--with-arm-fpu=$(NODEJS_ARM_FPU)) \
 		$(if $(NODEJS_MIPS_ARCH_VARIANT),--with-mips-arch-variant=$(NODEJS_MIPS_ARCH_VARIANT)) \
 		$(if $(NODEJS_MIPS_FPU_MODE),--with-mips-fpu-mode=$(NODEJS_MIPS_FPU_MODE)) \
 		$(NODEJS_CONF_OPTS) \