diff --git a/sys/mips/conf/ERL b/sys/mips/conf/ERL
index 59ea84d70f35..2c4fd26ba99c 100644
--- a/sys/mips/conf/ERL
+++ b/sys/mips/conf/ERL
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 ident		ERL
 
-makeoptions	ARCH_FLAGS="-march=octeon -mabi=64"
+makeoptions	ARCH_FLAGS="-march=octeon+ -mabi=64"
 makeoptions	LDSCRIPT_NAME=ldscript.mips.octeon1
 
 makeoptions	KERNLOADADDR=0xffffffff80100000