diff --git a/package/efl/Config.in b/package/efl/Config.in
index 5d687e85bd..0692d80b23 100644
--- a/package/efl/Config.in
+++ b/package/efl/Config.in
@@ -193,6 +193,19 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_ELPUT
 	  ecore_drm, etc) to handle interfacing with libinput without
 	  having to duplicate the code in each subsystem.
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_DRM
+	bool "Evas DRM Engine"
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libdrm
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_OPENGL_EGL # require libgbm from mesa3d
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_ELPUT
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDRM
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXKBCOMMON
+	help
+	  This option enable building support for the Evas DRM Engine.
+
+comment "Evas DRM Engine needs mesa3d w/ EGL support, threads"
+	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_OPENGL_EGL
+
 comment "libevas loaders"
 
 config BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_PNG
diff --git a/package/efl/efl.mk b/package/efl/efl.mk
index e08f252a60..d823af2d1a 100644
--- a/package/efl/efl.mk
+++ b/package/efl/efl.mk
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ endif # BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_ELPUT),y)
 EFL_CONF_OPTS += --enable-elput
-EFL_DEPENDENCIES += libinput libxkbcommon
+EFL_DEPENDENCIES += libinput
 else
 EFL_CONF_OPTS += --disable-elput
 endif
@@ -194,6 +194,15 @@ else ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_OPENGL_NONE),y)
 EFL_CONF_OPTS += --with-opengl=none
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_DRM),y)
+EFL_CONF_OPTS += --enable-drm
+EFL_DEPENDENCIES += libdrm libegl mesa3d
+else
+EFL_CONF_OPTS += --disable-drm
+endif
+
+EFL_DEPENDENCIES += $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXKBCOMMON),libxkbcommon)
+
 # Loaders that need external dependencies needs to be --enable-XXX=yes
 # otherwise the default is '=static'.
 # All other loaders are statically built-in