diff --git a/package/mesa3d/Config.in b/package/mesa3d/Config.in
index 66ebe04394..8cdb548fb6 100644
--- a/package/mesa3d/Config.in
+++ b/package/mesa3d/Config.in
@@ -252,17 +252,24 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_RADEONSI
 	bool "Gallium Radeon SI driver"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # libdrm
 	depends on BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_LLVM
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDRM_AMDGPU
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDRM_RADEON
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LLVM_AMDGPU
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LLVM_AMDGPU if BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_LLVM
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ELFUTILS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_NEEDS_ELFUTILS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_RUSTICL_SUPPORTED_DRIVER
 	help
 	  Driver for ATI/AMD Radeon HD7000/HD8000/Rx200 GPUs.
 
+	  Since Mesa 26.0.0, the default shader compiler is ACO,
+	  even when LLVM support is enabled at build time.
+
+	  Use the env var AMD_DEBUG=usellvm to override the
+	  default and use LLVM at runtime.
+
+	  https://docs.mesa3d.org/envvars.html#envvar-AMD_DEBUG
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_SVGA
 	bool "Gallium vmware svga driver"
 	depends on BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64