diff --git a/package/llvm/Config.in b/package/llvm/Config.in
index 83e94660eb..e235efed9a 100644
--- a/package/llvm/Config.in
+++ b/package/llvm/Config.in
@@ -35,6 +35,19 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LLVM_AMDGPU
 	  Build AMDGPU target. Select this option if you are going
 	  to install mesa3d with llvm and use Gallium Radeon driver.
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_LLVM_RTTI
+	bool "enable rtti"
+	help
+	  Build LLVM with run-time type information. LLVM can be built
+	  without rtti, but turning it off changes the ABI of C++
+	  programs.
+
+	  This features is needed to build the Gallium Nouveau driver
+	  or the Clover OpenCL state tracker when llvm support is
+	  enabled.
+
+	  https://llvm.org/docs/HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.html
+
 endif
 
 comment "llvm needs a toolchain w/ wchar, threads, C++, gcc >= 4.8, host gcc >= 4.8, dynamic library"
diff --git a/package/llvm/llvm.mk b/package/llvm/llvm.mk
index 4d9bb1d12f..2b2bcf336e 100644
--- a/package/llvm/llvm.mk
+++ b/package/llvm/llvm.mk
@@ -219,6 +219,14 @@ LLVM_CONF_OPTS += \
 	-DLLVM_INCLUDE_TOOLS=ON \
 	-DLLVM_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LLVM_RTTI),y)
+HOST_LLVM_CONF_OPTS += -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON
+LLVM_CONF_OPTS += -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON
+else
+HOST_LLVM_CONF_OPTS += -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=OFF
+LLVM_CONF_OPTS += -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=OFF
+endif
+
 # Compiler-rt not in the source tree.
 # llvm runtime libraries are not in the source tree.
 # Polly is not in the source tree.