diff --git a/projects/NXP/devices/iMX8/linux/linux.aarch64.conf b/projects/NXP/devices/iMX8/linux/linux.aarch64.conf
index 55b8d89861..bdd473e842 100644
--- a/projects/NXP/devices/iMX8/linux/linux.aarch64.conf
+++ b/projects/NXP/devices/iMX8/linux/linux.aarch64.conf
@@ -5944,7 +5944,8 @@ CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"
 # CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_UTF8 is not set
-# CONFIG_EXFAT_FS is not set
+CONFIG_EXFAT_FS=m
+CONFIG_EXFAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="utf8"
 # CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
 CONFIG_NTFS3_FS=m
 # CONFIG_NTFS3_64BIT_CLUSTER is not set