diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 675493dea2..29fa7da9e0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -78,5 +78,10 @@ exclude = [
     "programs/bpf",
 ]
 
+# TODO: Remove once the "simd-accel" feature from the reed-solomon-erasure
+# dependency is supported on Apple M1. v2 of the feature resolver is needed to
+# specify arch-specific features.
+resolver = "2"
+
 [profile.dev]
 split-debuginfo = "unpacked"
diff --git a/ledger/Cargo.toml b/ledger/Cargo.toml
index 5d07d50b29..270a937c97 100644
--- a/ledger/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ledger/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ prost = "0.7.0"
 rand = "0.7.0"
 rand_chacha = "0.2.2"
 rayon = "1.5.0"
-reed-solomon-erasure = { version = "4.0.2", features = ["simd-accel"] }
 serde = "1.0.126"
 serde_bytes = "0.11.5"
 sha2 = "0.9.5"
@@ -56,6 +55,14 @@ tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
 trees = "0.2.1"
 
+# Disable reed-solomon-erasure/simd-accel feature on aarch64 only since it
+# requires clang to support -march=native.
+[target.'cfg(any(target_arch = "aarch64", target_arch = "aarch64_apple_darwin"))'.dependencies]
+reed-solomon-erasure = { version = "4.0.2" }
+
+[target.'cfg(not(any(target_arch = "aarch64", target_arch = "aarch64_apple_darwin")))'.dependencies]
+reed-solomon-erasure = { version = "4.0.2", features = ["simd-accel"] }
+
 [dependencies.rocksdb]
 # Avoid the vendored bzip2 within rocksdb-sys that can cause linker conflicts
 # when also using the bzip2 crate