diff --git a/projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf b/projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf
index 075b34f7c1..be4421ccf4 100644
--- a/projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf
+++ b/projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf
@@ -5671,7 +5671,8 @@ CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="ascii"
 # 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
 # end of DOS/FAT/EXFAT/NT Filesystems