diff --git a/lfs/directfb b/lfs/directfb
index e406af820..34acb593e 100644
--- a/lfs/directfb
+++ b/lfs/directfb
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ $(subst %,%_MD5,$(objects)) :
 $(TARGET) : $(patsubst %,$(DIR_DL)/%,$(objects))
 	@$(PREBUILD)
 	@rm -rf $(DIR_APP) && cd $(DIR_SRC) && tar zxf $(DIR_DL)/$(DL_FILE)
+	cd $(DIR_APP) && patch -Np1 < $(DIR_SRC)/src/patches/directfb-1.1.1-fix-mknod.patch
 	cd $(DIR_APP) && sed -i "s/checkfor_matrox=yes/checkfor_matrox=no/g" configure
 	cd $(DIR_APP) && sed -i "s/checkfor_cle266=no/checkfor_cle266=yes/g" configure
 	cd $(DIR_APP) && sed -i "s/checkfor_omap=.*/checkfor_omap=no/g" configure
diff --git a/src/patches/directfb-1.1.1-fix-mknod.patch b/src/patches/directfb-1.1.1-fix-mknod.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..97633e2b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/patches/directfb-1.1.1-fix-mknod.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Description: directfb ftbfs on armel. Implicit declaration error
+ Fix for ARM builds failing on:
+  ../../../gfxdrivers/davinci/davinci_c64x.c: In function 'davinci_c64x_open':
+  ../../../gfxdrivers/davinci/davinci_c64x.c:1900:6: error: implicit declaration of function 'mknod' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
+  cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
+ .
+ directfb (1.2.10.0-4.3) unstable; urgency=low
+ .
+   * Non-maintainer upload.
+   * Fix "directfb ftbfs on armel. Implicit declaration error"
+     - Thanks Peter Green for bug report and patch (Closes: #644782)
+   * Remove m4 macros when calling clean target
+Author: Hector Oron <zumbi@debian.org>
+Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/644782
+
+--- directfb-1.2.10.0.orig/gfxdrivers/davinci/davinci_c64x.c
++++ directfb-1.2.10.0/gfxdrivers/davinci/davinci_c64x.c
+@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
+ #include <sys/ioctl.h>
+ #include <sys/mman.h>
+ #include <sys/types.h>
++#include <sys/stat.h>
++
+ #include <unistd.h>
+ 
+ #include <directfb_util.h>