diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/defconfig b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/defconfig
index 93d9207c827..1f4b5e3d1eb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/defconfig
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/defconfig
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ CONFIG_FSTRIM=y
 # CONFIG_FEATURE_GETOPT_LONG is not set
 CONFIG_HEXDUMP=y
 # CONFIG_HD is not set
-# CONFIG_XXD is not set
+CONFIG_XXD=y
 CONFIG_HWCLOCK=y
 CONFIG_FEATURE_HWCLOCK_ADJTIME_FHS=y
 # CONFIG_IONICE is not set