diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 3c26926afd7..ec47bfbe007 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -671,6 +671,7 @@
   symphorien = "Guillaume Girol <symphorien_nixpkgs@xlumurb.eu>";
   szczyp = "Szczyp <qb@szczyp.com>";
   sztupi = "Attila Sztupak <attila.sztupak@gmail.com>";
+  tadfisher = "Tad Fisher <tadfisher@gmail.com>";
   taeer = "Taeer Bar-Yam <taeer@necsi.edu>";
   tailhook = "Paul Colomiets <paul@colomiets.name>";
   taketwo = "Sergey Alexandrov <alexandrov88@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/acpica-tools/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/acpica-tools/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1381f13fd3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/acpica-tools/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, bison, flex }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "acpica-tools-${version}";
+  version = "20180209";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://acpica.org/sites/acpica/files/acpica-unix-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1rpdfwa4vwnvyxdp9ygqjckmabc3s8kyg3jyq4n4f0rhr1zl4zy5";
+  };
+
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-O3";
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  buildFlags = [
+    "acpibin"
+    "acpidump"
+    "acpiexec"
+    "acpihelp"
+    "acpinames"
+    "acpixtract"
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ bison flex ];
+
+  installFlags = [ "PREFIX=$(out)" ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "ACPICA Tools";
+    homepage = "https://www.acpica.org/";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl2 bsd3 ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ tadfisher ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b664493fec9..aca4f9212e1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -407,6 +407,8 @@ with pkgs;
     ffmpeg = ffmpeg_1;
   };
 
+  acpica-tools = callPackage ../tools/system/acpica-tools { };
+
   actdiag = pythonPackages.actdiag;
 
   actkbd = callPackage ../tools/system/actkbd { };