diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/packagegroups/packagegroup-obmc-phosphor-debugtools.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/packagegroups/packagegroup-obmc-phosphor-debugtools.bb
index edcc9ff..3118882 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/packagegroups/packagegroup-obmc-phosphor-debugtools.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/packagegroups/packagegroup-obmc-phosphor-debugtools.bb
@@ -12,4 +12,10 @@
     lmsensors-sensors \
     tcpdump \
     screen \
+    valgrind \
     "
+
+# Some older arm architectures don't support valgrind, so explicitly remove
+# it as a dependency from them, but keep it by default in anything newer.
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:remove:armv5 = "valgrind"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:remove:armv6 = "valgrind"