diff --git a/cpu/arm7_common/arm_cpu.c b/cpu/arm7_common/arm_cpu.c
index 855318d5b6..d358f3c0ae 100644
--- a/cpu/arm7_common/arm_cpu.c
+++ b/cpu/arm7_common/arm_cpu.c
@@ -36,16 +36,6 @@ __attribute__((used, section(".svc_stack"), aligned(4))) uint8_t svc_stack[ISR_S
 #error "ISR_STACKSIZE must be a multiple of 4"
 #endif
 
-void thread_yield_higher(void)
-{
-    if (irq_is_in()) {
-        sched_context_switch_request = 1;
-    }
-    else {
-        __asm__("svc 0\n");
-    }
-}
-
 /*----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Processor specific routine - here for ARM7
  * sizeof(void*) = sizeof(int)
diff --git a/cpu/arm7_common/include/thread_arch.h b/cpu/arm7_common/include/thread_arch.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c3f66c2e51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpu/arm7_common/include/thread_arch.h
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2008, 2009  Heiko Will <hwill@inf.fu-berlin.de>
+ * Copyright (C) 2009 Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser General
+ * Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level directory for more
+ * details.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @ingroup     cpu_arm7_common
+ * @{
+ *
+ * @file
+ * @brief       Implementation of the kernels thread interface
+ *
+ * @author Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
+ * @author Heiko Will <heiko.will@fu-berlin.de>
+ *
+ * @}
+ */
+#ifndef THREAD_ARCH_H
+#define THREAD_ARCH_H
+
+#include "irq.h"
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+#define THREAD_API_INLINED
+
+#ifndef DOXYGEN /* Doxygen is in core/include/thread.h */
+
+static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) void thread_yield_higher(void)
+{
+    if (irq_is_in()) {
+        sched_context_switch_request = 1;
+    }
+    else {
+        __asm__("svc 0\n");
+    }
+}
+
+#endif /* DOXYGEN */
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* THREAD_ARCH_H */
+/** @} */