diff --git a/projects/NXP/devices/iMX6/linux/linux.arm.conf b/projects/NXP/devices/iMX6/linux/linux.arm.conf
index 4a68c8fe8c..d4cecfbabb 100644
--- a/projects/NXP/devices/iMX6/linux/linux.arm.conf
+++ b/projects/NXP/devices/iMX6/linux/linux.arm.conf
@@ -5463,7 +5463,8 @@ 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
 # end of DOS/FAT/EXFAT/NT Filesystems