diff --git a/arm/raspi_arm.gni b/arm/raspi_arm.gni
index 7501bf9d..57c66705 100644
--- a/arm/raspi_arm.gni
+++ b/arm/raspi_arm.gni
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ if (current_cpu == "arm" || v8_current_cpu == "arm") {
       # The ARM floating point mode. This is either the string "hard", "soft",
       # or "softfp". An empty string means to use the default one for the
       # arm_version.
-      arm_float_abi = ""
+      arm_float_abi = "hard"
     }
   }
   assert(arm_float_abi == "" || arm_float_abi == "hard" ||