diff --git a/package/systemd/0001-src-basic-missing_loop.h-fix-missing-LOOP_SET_BLOCK_.patch b/package/systemd/0001-src-basic-missing_loop.h-fix-missing-LOOP_SET_BLOCK_.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7d520f81d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/systemd/0001-src-basic-missing_loop.h-fix-missing-LOOP_SET_BLOCK_.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+From e358793a796f8c742af4ea3f4fe398731ca46649 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Rapha=C3=ABl=20M=C3=A9lotte?= <raphael.melotte@mind.be>
+Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:37:29 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] src/basic/missing_loop.h: fix missing LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE
+MIME-Version: 1.0
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+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Builds with kernels headers < 4.14 fail with:
+
+../src/shared/loop-util.c: In function ‘loop_configure_fallback’:
+../src/shared/loop-util.c:237:31: error: ‘LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO’?
+                 if (ioctl(fd, LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE, (unsigned long) c->block_size) < 0)
+                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+                               LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO
+
+Fixes: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/33341
+Upstream: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/56ab1c54497d9fac74380ff9e11aaf931a917d2b
+Signed-off-by: Raphaël Mélotte <raphael.melotte@mind.be>
+---
+ src/basic/missing_loop.h | 4 ++++
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/basic/missing_loop.h b/src/basic/missing_loop.h
+index 7141544b64..b1505f678b 100644
+--- a/src/basic/missing_loop.h
++++ b/src/basic/missing_loop.h
+@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@ struct loop_config {
+ #ifndef LOOP_SET_STATUS_SETTABLE_FLAGS
+ #define LOOP_SET_STATUS_SETTABLE_FLAGS (LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR | LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN | LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO)
+ #endif
++
++#ifndef LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE
++#  define LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE 0x4C09
++#endif
+-- 
+2.25.1
+
diff --git a/package/systemd/Config.in b/package/systemd/Config.in
index a94e9b73b8..82c0e30474 100644
--- a/package/systemd/Config.in
+++ b/package/systemd/Config.in
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ menuconfig BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # kmod
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SSP
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_4_14 # LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_15
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_5
 	depends on BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_5 # host-systemd
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_HOMED
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # cryptsetup -> lvm2
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # cryptsetup -> lvm2
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4 # cryptsetup -> json-c
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_4_12 # fscrypt_key
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_CRYPTSETUP
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL_FORCE_LIBOPENSSL
@@ -249,11 +250,11 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_HOMED
 
 	  https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-homed.service.html
 
-comment "homed support needs a toolchain w/ threads, dynamic library"
+comment "homed support needs a toolchain w/ threads, dynamic library, kernel headers >= 4.12"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4
 	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
-		BR2_STATIC_LIBS
+		BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_4_12
 
 config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_HOSTNAMED
 	bool "enable hostname daemon"
diff --git a/system/Config.in b/system/Config.in
index 3fb17ed1c6..bc0c6eb6bc 100644
--- a/system/Config.in
+++ b/system/Config.in
@@ -125,19 +125,19 @@ config BR2_INIT_SYSTEMD
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SSP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_4_14
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_15
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_5
 	depends on BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_5
 	select BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_SKELETON_INIT_SYSTEMD if BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_DEFAULT
 
-comment "systemd needs a glibc toolchain w/ SSP, headers >= 4.14, host and target gcc >= 5"
+comment "systemd needs a glibc toolchain w/ SSP, headers >= 3.15, host and target gcc >= 5"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC || \
 		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SSP || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_4_14 || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_15 || \
 		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_5 || \
 		!BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_5