diff --git a/srcpkgs/thermald/files/thermald/run b/srcpkgs/thermald/files/thermald/run
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de5b6d5c3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/thermald/files/thermald/run
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+sv check dbus >/dev/null || exit 1
+exec thermald --no-daemon --dbus-enable 2>&1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/thermald/template b/srcpkgs/thermald/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..23ac15a67d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/thermald/template
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Template file for 'thermald'
+pkgname=thermald
+version=1.4.2
+revision=1
+_pkgname=thermal_daemon
+wrksrc="${_pkgname}-${version}"
+only_for_archs="i686 i686-musl x86_64 x86_64-musl"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="automake pkg-config"
+makedepends="dbus-glib-devel libxml2-devel glib-devel libgomp-devel"
+short_desc="The Linux Thermal Daemon program from 01.org"
+maintainer="Andrea Brancaleoni <miwaxe@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="https://github.com/01org/${_pkgname}"
+distfiles="${homepage}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=4be5e1105f8b24af17d19357eda97b6edd3d74284c3ee762060d487158997f8b
+conf_files="
+/etc/thermald/thermal-conf.xml
+/etc/thermald/thermal-cpu-cdev-order.xml"
+
+pre_configure() {
+	NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	rm -r ${DESTDIR}/etc/init
+	vsv thermald
+}