diff --git a/Makefile.config b/Makefile.config
index 331aa46b9..97e4704a3 100644
--- a/Makefile.config
+++ b/Makefile.config
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ CONFIGFILES	= \
 	$(CFG)-i686-PAE.config $(CFG)-i686-PAEdebug.config \
 	$(CFG)-x86_64.config $(CFG)-x86_64-debug.config \
 	$(CFG)-s390x.config \
-	$(CFG)-arm.config  $(CFG)-armv5tel.config \
+	$(CFG)-arm.config  $(CFG)-armv5tel.config  $(CFG)-armv7hl.config \
 	$(CFG)-armv5tel-kirkwood.config  $(CFG)-armv7l-imx.config \
 	$(CFG)-armv7l-omap.config $(CFG)-armv7l-tegra.config \
         $(CFG)-armv7hl-imx.config $(CFG)-armv7hl-highbank.config \
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ kernel-$(VERSION)-arm.config: /dev/null temp-arm-generic
 kernel-$(VERSION)-armv5tel.config: /dev/null temp-arm-generic
 	perl merge.pl $^ arm > $@
 
+kernel-$(VERSION)-armv7hl.config: /dev/null temp-arm-generic
+	perl merge.pl $^ arm > $@
+
 kernel-$(VERSION)-armv5tel-kirkwood.config: /dev/null temp-armv5tel-kirkwood
 	perl merge.pl $^ arm > $@
 
diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index 6dd289c40..50a1a266c 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -422,8 +422,8 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel
 %define make_target bzImage
 %define kernel_image arch/arm/boot/zImage
 %define with_backports 0
-# we build a up kernel on armv5tel. its used for qemu.
-%ifnarch armv5tel
+# we build a up kernel on base softfp/hardfp platforms. its used for qemu.
+%ifnarch armv5tel armv7hl
 %define with_up 0
 %endif
 # we only build headers/perf/tools on the base arm arches
@@ -2299,6 +2299,9 @@ fi
 #                 ||----w |
 #                 ||     ||
 %changelog
+* Mon Feb  6 2012 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org>
+- Build an ARM hardfp base versatile/qemu kernel
+
 * Mon Feb 06 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - 3.3.0-0.rc2.git4.1
 - Linux 3.3-rc2-git4 (upstream 23783f817bceedd6d4e549385e3f400ea64059e5)
 - Build and ship turbostat and x86_energy_perf_policy in kernel-tools