diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index dcc507bb98..b2579fc44c 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -810,6 +810,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-texinfo-dummy-native = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-tiff = "Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-time = "Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-ttf-bitstream-vera = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-ttyrun = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-tzcode-native = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-tzdata = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-u-boot = "Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ttyrun/ttyrun_2.29.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/ttyrun/ttyrun_2.29.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e0956b9ac6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ttyrun/ttyrun_2.29.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+SUMMARY = "Start the program if the specified terminal device is available."
+DESCRIPTION = "ttyrun is typically used to prevent a respawn through the \
+init(8) program when a terminal is not available."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/ibm-s390-linux/s390-tools"
+
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=f5118f167b055bfd7c3450803f1847af"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/ibm-s390-linux/s390-tools;protocol=https;branch=master"
+SRCREV = "d9ce54dee3ac3827e76624352293a83eb05c727e"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = "\
+    V=1 \
+    CC="${CC}" \
+    DISTRELEASE=${PR} \
+    "
+
+# We just want ttyrun and not the rest of s390-utils
+
+do_configure() {
+    oe_runmake -C ${S}/iucvterm/src clean
+}
+
+do_compile() {
+    oe_runmake -C ${S}/iucvterm/src ttyrun
+}
+
+do_install() {
+    install -d ${D}${sbindir}
+    install ${S}/iucvterm/src/ttyrun ${D}${sbindir}
+}