diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/kmsxx/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/kmsxx/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..490732c3802
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/kmsxx/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, pkgconfig, libdrm, python }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "kmsxx-2017-10-10";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "tomba";
+    repo = "kmsxx";
+    fetchSubmodules = true;
+    rev = "f32b82c17cd357ae1c8ed2636266113955293feb";
+    sha256 = "14panqdqq83wh6wym5afdiyrr78mb12ga63pgrppj27kgv398yjj";
+  };
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ libdrm python ];
+
+  pythonPath = [ ];
+  passthru.python = python;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "C++11 library, utilities and python bindings for Linux kernel mode setting";
+    homepage = https://github.com/tomba/kmsxx;
+    license = licenses.mpl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ gnidorah ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 86998d80eb2..c0f1b45d325 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12312,6 +12312,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   kmscube = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/kmscube { };
 
+  kmsxx = callPackage ../development/libraries/kmsxx { };
+
   latencytop = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/latencytop { };
 
   ldm = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/ldm { };
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 45c01f5e373..facb6eb25b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -15604,6 +15604,8 @@ in {
   pika-pool = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pika-pool { };
   platformio = callPackage ../development/python-modules/platformio { };
 
+  kmsxx = callPackage ../development/libraries/kmsxx { };
+
   pylibconfig2 = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "pylibconfig2-${version}";
     version = "0.2.4";