diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.10.7-binary.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.10.7-binary.nix
index c4a20e7af4bcf..6137777f27470 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.10.7-binary.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.10.7-binary.nix
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ let
     ghcBinDists.${distSetName}.${stdenv.hostPlatform.system}
       or (throw "cannot bootstrap GHC on this platform ('${stdenv.hostPlatform.system}' with libc '${distSetName}')");
 
-  useLLVM = !stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86;
+  useLLVM = !(import ./common-have-ncg.nix { inherit lib stdenv version; });
 
   libPath = lib.makeLibraryPath (
     # Add arch-specific libraries.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.10.7.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.10.7.nix
index c0d9e2b371f76..ed14b48743b01 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.10.7.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.10.7.nix
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+let
+  version = "8.10.7";
+in
+
 {
   lib,
   stdenv,
@@ -32,8 +36,7 @@
   libffi ? null,
   libffi_3_3 ? null,
 
-  useLLVM ?
-    !(stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86 || stdenv.targetPlatform.isPower || stdenv.targetPlatform.isSparc),
+  useLLVM ? !(import ./common-have-ncg.nix { inherit lib stdenv version; }),
   # LLVM is conceptually a run-time-only dependency, but for
   # non-x86, we need LLVM to bootstrap later stages, so it becomes a
   # build-time dependency too.
@@ -271,7 +274,7 @@ in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (
   rec {
-    version = "8.10.7";
+    inherit version;
     pname = "${targetPrefix}ghc${variantSuffix}";
 
     src = fetchurl {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.2.4-binary.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.2.4-binary.nix
index c5a704e8ad869..e5e21a91b611a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.2.4-binary.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.2.4-binary.nix
@@ -193,12 +193,7 @@ let
       ) binDistUsed.archSpecificLibraries
     )).nixPackage;
 
-  # GHC has other native backends (like PowerPC), but here only the ones
-  # we ship bindists for matter.
-  useLLVM =
-    !(
-      stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86 || (stdenv.targetPlatform.isAarch64 && stdenv.targetPlatform.isDarwin)
-    );
+  useLLVM = !(import ./common-have-ncg.nix { inherit lib stdenv version; });
 
   libPath = lib.makeLibraryPath (
     # Add arch-specific libraries.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.6.3-binary.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.6.3-binary.nix
index ef4828814854a..e392fdd02f5bf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.6.3-binary.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.6.3-binary.nix
@@ -192,12 +192,7 @@ let
       ) binDistUsed.archSpecificLibraries
     )).nixPackage;
 
-  # GHC has other native backends (like PowerPC), but here only the ones
-  # we ship bindists for matter.
-  useLLVM =
-    !(
-      stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86 || (stdenv.targetPlatform.isAarch64 && stdenv.targetPlatform.isDarwin)
-    );
+  useLLVM = !(import ./common-have-ncg.nix { inherit lib stdenv version; });
 
   libPath = lib.makeLibraryPath (
     # Add arch-specific libraries.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-hadrian.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-hadrian.nix
index 3a6ea450f37ed..7974cba0824c9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-hadrian.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-hadrian.nix
@@ -39,11 +39,7 @@
 , # GHC can be built with system libffi or a bundled one.
   libffi ? null
 
-, useLLVM ? !(stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86
-              || stdenv.targetPlatform.isPower
-              || stdenv.targetPlatform.isAarch64
-              || stdenv.targetPlatform.isGhcjs
-              || (lib.versionAtLeast version "9.12" && stdenv.targetPlatform.isRiscV64))
+, useLLVM ? !(import ./common-have-ncg.nix { inherit lib stdenv version; })
 , # LLVM is conceptually a run-time-only dependency, but for
   # non-x86, we need LLVM to bootstrap later stages, so it becomes a
   # build-time dependency too.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-have-ncg.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-have-ncg.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1b92a0700ac2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-have-ncg.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Determines whether the Native Code Generation (NCG) backend of the given
+# GHC `version` is supported for compiling to `stdenv.targetPlatform`.
+{
+  version,
+  stdenv,
+  lib,
+}:
+
+stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86
+|| stdenv.targetPlatform.isPower
+|| (lib.versionOlder version "9.4" && stdenv.targetPlatform.isSparc)
+|| (lib.versionAtLeast version "9.2" && stdenv.targetPlatform.isAarch64)
+|| (lib.versionAtLeast version "9.6" && stdenv.targetPlatform.isGhcjs)
+|| (lib.versionAtLeast version "9.12" && stdenv.targetPlatform.isRiscV64)
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-make-native-bignum.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-make-native-bignum.nix
index 412e8d7d4671c..b204a1c703638 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-make-native-bignum.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-make-native-bignum.nix
@@ -34,13 +34,8 @@
   # GHC can be built with system libffi or a bundled one.
   libffi ? null,
 
-  useLLVM ?
-    !(
-      stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86
-      || stdenv.targetPlatform.isPower
-      || (lib.versionOlder version "9.4" && stdenv.targetPlatform.isSparc)
-      || (lib.versionAtLeast version "9.2" && stdenv.targetPlatform.isAarch64)
-    ),
+  useLLVM ? !(import ./common-have-ncg.nix { inherit lib stdenv version; }),
+
   # LLVM is conceptually a run-time-only dependency, but for
   # non-x86, we need LLVM to bootstrap later stages, so it becomes a
   # build-time dependency too.