diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index ebaece9cb5..e1cdf40073 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -798,6 +798,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-xtrans = "Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-xuser-account = "Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-xvinfo = "Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-xwininfo = "Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-xxhash = "Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-xz = "Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-zip = "Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-zlib = "Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/xxhash/xxhash_0.8.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/xxhash/xxhash_0.8.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9e38872361
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/xxhash/xxhash_0.8.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+SUMMARY = "Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm"
+DESCRIPTION = "xxHash is an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm, \
+working at speeds close to RAM limits."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.xxhash.com/"
+LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause & GPL-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=b335320506abb0505437e39295e799cb"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash.git;branch=release;protocol=git"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "v(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
+
+SRCREV = "94e5f23e736f2bb67ebdf90727353e65344f9fc0"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+do_compile () {
+	oe_runmake all
+}
+
+do_install () {
+	oe_runmake DESTDIR=${D} install
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"