diff --git a/py2-tables-fix-for-aarch64.patch b/py2-tables-fix-for-aarch64.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6dfb8bb4da1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/py2-tables-fix-for-aarch64.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 6b64a57..4681b14 100755
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ import distutils.spawn
+ from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext
+ 
+ # For guessing the capabilities of the CPU for C-Blosc
+-import cpuinfo
+-cpu_info = cpuinfo.get_cpu_info()
++#import cpuinfo
++cpu_info = { 'flags' : [] } #to avoid compiling avx2 and make it run for aarch64
+ 
+ # The name for the pkg-config utility
+ PKG_CONFIG = 'pkg-config'
diff --git a/py2-tables.spec b/py2-tables.spec
index 2b243a1e007..0c1b0364153 100644
--- a/py2-tables.spec
+++ b/py2-tables.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 ### RPM external py2-tables 3.3.0
 ## INITENV +PATH PYTHONPATH %{i}/$PYTHON_LIB_SITE_PACKAGES
-
+Patch0: py2-tables-fix-for-aarch64
 %define pip_name tables
 Requires: py2-numexpr py2-six py2-numpy hdf5 bz2lib
 
-%define PipPreBuild export HDF5_DIR=${HDF5_ROOT}
+%define PipPreBuild export HDF5_DIR=${HDF5_ROOT} && tar -xzf tables-%{realversion}.tar.gz && pushd tables-%{realversion} && for pch in %{patches} ; do patch -p1 < ${pch} ; done && popd && rm -f tables-%{realversion}.tar.gz && tar czf tables-%{realversion}.tar.gz  tables-%{realversion}
 
 %define PipBuildOptions  --global-option="--hdf5=${HDF5_ROOT}" --global-option="--bzip2=${BZ2LIB_ROOT}"