diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
index 7add26173f..940e15865e 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemux86-64 = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
 
 TCLIBCAPPEND = ""
 
-QEMU_TARGETS ?= "arm aarch64 i386 mips mipsel mips64 mips64el ppc x86_64"
+QEMU_TARGETS ?= "arm aarch64 i386 mips mipsel mips64 mips64el nios2 ppc x86_64"
 # Other QEMU_TARGETS "sh4"
 
 PREMIRRORS ??= "\