diff --git a/parser/ETSparser.cpp b/parser/ETSparser.cpp
index 91849141c93f3d4750d86fd582e7d86b525cff01..ff1bdc683427cb11dcfbf05d32f094623616a406 100644
--- a/parser/ETSparser.cpp
+++ b/parser/ETSparser.cpp
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 #include "libpandabase/utils/json_parser.h"
 #include "generated/signatures.h"
 
-#if defined PANDA_TARGET_MOBILE || defined PANDA_TARGET_ARM32
+#if defined PANDA_TARGET_MOBILE
 #define USE_UNIX_SYSCALL
 #endif
 
diff --git a/test/CMakeLists.txt b/test/CMakeLists.txt
index 7ff515a7442842de081f43c7626b9e1a695e674b..02c7d59ec09a2ae85215c79c3d31de7379dd6609 100644
--- a/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-# ignore for 32x processors because there is a problem with running on arm-gnu-eabi and arm-gnu-eabi-hf
+# ignore ARM32 because some files (not gnueabi or gnueabihf) are incompatible with 32x processors
 # this will be fixed in the future
 if(PANDA_TARGET_ARM32 OR PANDA_ARM64_TESTS_WITH_SANITIZER)
     return()
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ if(PANDA_WITH_ETS)
         endif()
     endif()
 
+    if(PANDA_TARGET_ARM32)
+        set(OPTIONS --test-list-arch=arm32 ${OPTIONS})
+        if(PANDA_QEMU_BUILD)
+            set(OPTIONS --arm32-qemu ${OPTIONS})
+        endif()
+    endif()
+
     add_custom_target(es2panda-regression-tests
         DEPENDS ark es2panda verifier
         WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PANDA_ROOT}