diff --git a/board/qemu/aarch64-virt/linux.config b/board/qemu/aarch64-virt/linux.config
index c21994076a..88f4c43c9e 100644
--- a/board/qemu/aarch64-virt/linux.config
+++ b/board/qemu/aarch64-virt/linux.config
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO=y
 CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO_CMDLINE_DEVICES=y
 CONFIG_MAILBOX=y
 CONFIG_PL320_MBOX=y
+CONFIG_ARM_SMMU_V3=y
 CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
 CONFIG_TMPFS=y
 CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y