install_requires=[
         "Adafruit-PlatformDetect",
         "Adafruit-PureIO",
-        "spidev>=3.4; sys_platform=='linux'",
+        "spidev>=3.4; sys_platform=='linux' and platform_machine!='mips'",
         "sysv_ipc; platform_system != 'Windows' and platform_machine != 'mips'",
         "pyftdi>=0.30.0"
     ] + board_reqs,