diff --git a/package/efl/Config.in b/package/efl/Config.in
index 0692d80b23..c51fc564d4 100644
--- a/package/efl/Config.in
+++ b/package/efl/Config.in
@@ -155,6 +155,18 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_X_XLIB
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXTST
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_XPROTO_GLPROTO
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_WAYLAND
+	bool "Wayland support"
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # Evas DRM Engine -> libdrm
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_OPENGL_EGL # Evas DRM Engine
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_OPENGLES # OpenGL ES with EGL support only
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_DRM
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_WAYLAND
+
+comment "Wayland support needs OpenGL ES w/ EGL, threads"
+	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_OPENGL_EGL \
+		|| !BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_OPENGLES
+
 choice
 	bool "OpenGL support"
 	help
diff --git a/package/efl/efl.mk b/package/efl/efl.mk
index d823af2d1a..7a8e47f4c1 100644
--- a/package/efl/efl.mk
+++ b/package/efl/efl.mk
@@ -201,6 +201,16 @@ else
 EFL_CONF_OPTS += --disable-drm
 endif
 
+# The EFL Wayland support requires Evas GLES DRM engine support
+# which depends on wayland-client to build.
+# So enable gl_drm only when wayland support is selected.
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_EFL_WAYLAND),y)
+EFL_DEPENDENCIES += wayland
+EFL_CONF_OPTS += --enable-wayland --enable-gl-drm
+else
+EFL_CONF_OPTS += --disable-wayland --disable-gl-drm
+endif
+
 EFL_DEPENDENCIES += $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXKBCOMMON),libxkbcommon)
 
 # Loaders that need external dependencies needs to be --enable-XXX=yes