diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_257.5.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_257.5.bb
index 6a50ac05aa9915982dca4649f7bda610cfbfa14b..151e4a953735b524ed14a5ef5459dd037efdcdaf 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_257.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-boot_257.5.bb
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ FILES:${PN} = "${EFI_FILES_PATH}/${SYSTEMD_BOOT_IMAGE}"
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN} += "virtual-systemd-bootconf"
 
+# efi portions use -mgeneral-regs-only option which conflicts with SSE
+# especially clang throws errors about it
+# error: the 'sse' unit is not supported with this instruction set
+TUNE_CCARGS:remove = "-mfpmath=sse"
+
 CFLAGS:append:libc-musl = " -D__DEFINED_wchar_t"
 
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(aarch64.*|arm.*|x86_64.*|i.86.*|riscv.*)-linux"