diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 0365cbbc9179..34e1569a11ee 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ config ARM
 	select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
 	select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
 	select NO_BOOTMEM
+	select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE if OF
+	select OF_RESERVED_MEM if OF
 	select OLD_SIGACTION
 	select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
 	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
@@ -1822,8 +1824,6 @@ config USE_OF
 	bool "Flattened Device Tree support"
 	select IRQ_DOMAIN
 	select OF
-	select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE
-	select OF_RESERVED_MEM
 	help
 	  Include support for flattened device tree machine descriptions.