diff --git a/repos/libports/recipes/src/acpi_event/content.mk b/repos/libports/recipes/src/acpi_event/content.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2b3f76a732
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/libports/recipes/src/acpi_event/content.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+SRC_DIR = src/app/acpi_event
+include $(GENODE_DIR)/repos/base/recipes/src/content.inc
+
+content: $(MIRROR_FROM_REP_DIR)
+
+$(MIRROR_FROM_REP_DIR):
+	$(mirror_from_rep_dir)
diff --git a/repos/libports/recipes/src/acpi_event/hash b/repos/libports/recipes/src/acpi_event/hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..63e265ccdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/libports/recipes/src/acpi_event/hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2023-06-15 7a2841924c23f30c23dc5790f3cbe4d1edae49b6
diff --git a/repos/libports/recipes/src/acpi_event/used_apis b/repos/libports/recipes/src/acpi_event/used_apis
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..510598b792
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/libports/recipes/src/acpi_event/used_apis
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+base
+os
+event_session
diff --git a/repos/libports/run/acpica.run b/repos/libports/run/acpica.run
index 4dbba35fe9..67b54e048e 100644
--- a/repos/libports/run/acpica.run
+++ b/repos/libports/run/acpica.run
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ set build_components {
 	server/event_dump
 	app/pci_decode
 	app/acpica
-	app/acpi_event
 }
 
 build $build_components
@@ -26,7 +25,8 @@ import_from_depot [depot_user]/src/dynamic_rom \
                   [depot_user]/src/pc_usb_host_drv \
                   [depot_user]/src/ps2_drv \
                   [depot_user]/src/report_rom \
-                  [depot_user]/src/usb_hid_drv
+                  [depot_user]/src/usb_hid_drv \
+                  [depot_user]/src/acpi_event
 
 set config {
 	<config>
@@ -252,15 +252,7 @@ install_config $config
 # non PCI devices for platform_drv, e.g. ps2/pit
 file copy [select_from_repositories board/[board]/devices] [run_dir]/genode/devices
 
-set boot_modules {
-	core init ld.lib.so
-	timer platform_drv pci_decode acpi_drv
-	acpica
-	acpi_event
-	event_dump
-}
-
-build_boot_image $boot_modules
+build_boot_image [build_artifacts]
 
 append qemu_args "-nographic "