diff --git a/meta-adi-xilinx/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_%.bbappend b/meta-adi-xilinx/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_%.bbappend
index 17c92e8..8fffd87 100644
--- a/meta-adi-xilinx/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-adi-xilinx/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_%.bbappend
@@ -11,3 +11,7 @@ inherit update-rc.d
 
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', 'iiod', '', d)}"
 
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= "USB_BACKEND NETWORK_BACKEND PYTHON_BINDINGS SERIAL_BACKEND"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[SERIAL_BACKEND] = "-DWITH_SERIAL_BACKEND=ON,-DWITH_SERIAL_BACKEND=off,libserialport libxml2"
+