diff --git a/srcpkgs/rpi-kernel/template b/srcpkgs/rpi-kernel/template
index ec008c65e47..a645995353c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rpi-kernel/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rpi-kernel/template
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ do_install() {
 
 	# Compress all modules with xz to save a few MBs.
 	msg_normal "$pkgver: compressing kernel modules with gzip, please wait...\n"
-	find ${DESTDIR} -name '*.ko' | xargs -n -P gzip -9
+	find ${DESTDIR} -name '*.ko' | xargs -n1 -P0 gzip -9
 
 	# ... and run depmod again.
 	depmod -b ${DESTDIR}/usr -F System.map ${_kernver}