diff --git a/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-imx8q_evk/content.mk b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-imx8q_evk/content.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..147e1d490
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-imx8q_evk/content.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+include $(GENODE_DIR)/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw_content.inc
+
+content: enable_board_spec
+enable_board_spec: etc/specs.conf
+	echo "SPECS += imx8q_evk" >> etc/specs.conf
diff --git a/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-imx8q_evk/hash b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-imx8q_evk/hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff3943ad2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-imx8q_evk/hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2019-07-01 7ef5a9e51aa14507cf83b746f4f1ea1c979865f3
diff --git a/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-imx8q_evk/used_apis b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-imx8q_evk/used_apis
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ed9b77256
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-imx8q_evk/used_apis
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+base-hw
+base
diff --git a/tool/run/boot_dir/hw b/tool/run/boot_dir/hw
index ea6a70020..29f9271d4 100644
--- a/tool/run/boot_dir/hw
+++ b/tool/run/boot_dir/hw
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ proc base_src { } {
 	if {[have_spec rpi3]}                                { return base-hw-rpi3 }
 	if {[have_spec imx6q_sabrelite]}                     { return base-hw-imx6q_sabrelite }
 	if {[have_spec imx7d_sabre]}                         { return base-hw-imx7d_sabre }
+	if {[have_spec imx8q_evk]}                           { return base-hw-imx8q_evk }
 	if {[have_spec nit6_solox]}                          { return base-hw-nit6_solox }
 	if {[have_spec odroid_xu]}                           { return base-hw-odroid_xu }
 	if {[have_spec imx53_qsb] && ![have_spec trustzone]} { return base-hw-imx53_qsb }