diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index 80138ee0ec..3eafb47dbb 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -97,3 +97,8 @@ dev-util/checkbashisms
 
 # Includes fix for checking mount status of loop devices
 =sys-fs/btrfs-progs-3.14_pre20140414
+
+# Current systemd git requires >= 3.10 to build,
+# use 3.13 since Gentoo is starting to stabilize that one:
+# https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507096
+=sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.13
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
index 2b1bc6cd20..b6ade5c8ca 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/systemd/systemd-9999.ebuild
@@ -78,15 +78,13 @@ PDEPEND=">=sys-apps/dbus-1.6.8-r1:0
 	policykit? ( sys-auth/polkit )
 	!vanilla? ( sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration )"
 
-# Newer linux-headers needed by ia64, bug #480218
 DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
 	app-arch/xz-utils:0
 	dev-util/gperf
 	>=dev-util/intltool-0.50
 	>=sys-devel/binutils-2.23.1
 	>=sys-devel/gcc-4.6
-	>=sys-kernel/linux-headers-${MINKV}
-	ia64? ( >=sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.9 )
+	>=sys-kernel/linux-headers-3.13
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 	doc? ( >=dev-util/gtk-doc-1.18 )
 	python? ( dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )