diff --git a/0001-Check-architecture-lazily.patch b/0001-Check-architecture-lazily.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6e8499
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-Check-architecture-lazily.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+From 80a7043f12ffe6985ef3ce5bd9aac6c1c2ae2219 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
+Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:24:52 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Check architecture lazily
+
+Before this patch, mkosi wouldn't even run --help on a platform that
+wasn't amd64 or arm64. That's unnecessarily harsh, a lot of functionality
+is platform-independent and will work anywhere.
+---
+ mkosi | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
+ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/mkosi b/mkosi
+index 4ef608bc68..3ecc1a7dd0 100755
+--- a/mkosi
++++ b/mkosi
+@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
+ import argparse
+ import configparser
+ import contextlib
++import collections
+ import crypt
+ import ctypes, ctypes.util
+ import errno
+@@ -84,15 +85,6 @@ GPT_ROOT_ARM_VERITY    = uuid.UUID("7386cdf2203c47a9a498f2ecce45a2d6")
+ GPT_ROOT_ARM_64_VERITY = uuid.UUID("df3300ced69f4c92978c9bfb0f38d820")
+ GPT_ROOT_IA64_VERITY   = uuid.UUID("86ed10d5b60745bb8957d350f23d0571")
+ 
+-if platform.machine() == "x86_64":
+-    GPT_ROOT_NATIVE = GPT_ROOT_X86_64
+-    GPT_ROOT_NATIVE_VERITY = GPT_ROOT_X86_64_VERITY
+-elif platform.machine() == "aarch64":
+-    GPT_ROOT_NATIVE = GPT_ROOT_ARM_64
+-    GPT_ROOT_NATIVE_VERITY = GPT_ROOT_ARM_64_VERITY
+-else:
+-    die("Don't know the %s architecture." % platform.machine())
+-
+ CLONE_NEWNS = 0x00020000
+ 
+ FEDORA_KEYS_MAP = {
+@@ -109,6 +101,21 @@ FEDORA_KEYS_MAP = {
+ GPT_HEADER_SIZE = 1024*1024
+ GPT_FOOTER_SIZE = 1024*1024
+ 
++GPTRootTypePair = collections.namedtuple('GPTRootTypePair', 'root verity')
++
++def gpt_root_native():
++    """The tag for the native GPT root partition
++
++    Returns a tuple of two tags: for the root partition and for the
++    matching verity partition.
++    """
++    if platform.machine() == "x86_64":
++        return GPTRootTypePair(GPT_ROOT_X86_64, GPT_ROOT_X86_64_VERITY)
++    elif platform.machine() == "aarch64":
++        return GPTRootTypePair(GPT_ROOT_ARM_64, GPT_ROOT_ARM_64_VERITY)
++    else:
++        die("Unknown architecture {}.".format(platform.machine()))
++
+ def unshare(flags):
+     libc = ctypes.CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library("c"), use_errno=True)
+ 
+@@ -367,7 +374,9 @@ def determine_partition_table(args):
+             run_sfdisk = True
+ 
+     if args.output_format != OutputFormat.raw_squashfs:
+-        table += 'type={}, attrs={}, name="Root Partition"\n'.format(GPT_ROOT_NATIVE, "GUID:60" if args.read_only and args.output_format != OutputFormat.raw_btrfs else "")
++        table += 'type={}, attrs={}, name="Root Partition"\n'.format(
++            gpt_root_native().root,
++            "GUID:60" if args.read_only and args.output_format != OutputFormat.raw_btrfs else "")
+         run_sfdisk = True
+ 
+     args.root_partno = pn
+@@ -1930,7 +1939,7 @@ def insert_squashfs(args, workspace, raw, loopdev, squashfs, for_cache):
+ 
+     with complete_step('Inserting squashfs root partition'):
+         args.root_size = insert_partition(args, workspace, raw, loopdev, args.root_partno, squashfs,
+-                                          "Root Partition", GPT_ROOT_NATIVE)
++                                          "Root Partition", gpt_root_native().root)
+ 
+ def make_verity(args, workspace, dev, run_build_script, for_cache):
+ 
+@@ -1962,7 +1971,7 @@ def insert_verity(args, workspace, raw, loopdev, verity, root_hash, for_cache):
+ 
+     with complete_step('Inserting verity partition'):
+         insert_partition(args, workspace, raw, loopdev, args.verity_partno, verity,
+-                         "Verity Partition", GPT_ROOT_NATIVE_VERITY, u)
++                         "Verity Partition", gpt_root_native().verity, u)
+ 
+ def patch_root_uuid(args, loopdev, root_hash, for_cache):
+ 
+-- 
+2.14.3
+