diff --git a/tcg/i386/tcg-target.inc.c b/tcg/i386/tcg-target.inc.c
index 5357909fffca1f72eda5a2751a5aa9643be45f29..0d0ff524b7b7ec614fc633f70ccd7f05030881eb 100644
--- a/tcg/i386/tcg-target.inc.c
+++ b/tcg/i386/tcg-target.inc.c
@@ -3501,7 +3501,10 @@ static void tcg_target_init(TCGContext *s)
            sure of not hitting invalid opcode.  */
         if (c & bit_OSXSAVE) {
             unsigned xcrl, xcrh;
-            asm ("xgetbv" : "=a" (xcrl), "=d" (xcrh) : "c" (0));
+            /* The xgetbv instruction is not available to older versions of
+             * the assembler, so we encode the instruction manually.
+             */
+            asm(".byte 0x0f, 0x01, 0xd0" : "=a" (xcrl), "=d" (xcrh) : "c" (0));
             if ((xcrl & 6) == 6) {
                 have_avx1 = (c & bit_AVX) != 0;
                 have_avx2 = (b7 & bit_AVX2) != 0;