diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 4c1a35f15838..dabcaeb2ee3e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -2061,6 +2061,23 @@ config EFI
 	  is only useful for kernels that may run on systems that have
 	  UEFI firmware.
 
+config DMI
+	bool "Enable support for SMBIOS (DMI) tables"
+	depends on EFI
+	default y
+	help
+	  This enables SMBIOS/DMI feature for systems.
+
+	  This option is only useful on systems that have UEFI firmware.
+	  However, even with this option, the resultant kernel should
+	  continue to boot on existing non-UEFI platforms.
+
+	  NOTE: This does *NOT* enable or encourage the use of DMI quirks,
+	  i.e., the the practice of identifying the platform via DMI to
+	  decide whether certain workarounds for buggy hardware and/or
+	  firmware need to be enabled. This would require the DMI subsystem
+	  to be enabled much earlier than we do on ARM, which is non-trivial.
+
 endmenu
 
 menu "CPU Power Management"
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/dmi.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/dmi.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..df2d2ff06f5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/dmi.h
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/*
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __ASM_DMI_H
+#define __ASM_DMI_H
+
+#include <linux/io.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+
+#define dmi_early_remap(x, l)		memremap(x, l, MEMREMAP_WB)
+#define dmi_early_unmap(x, l)		memunmap(x)
+#define dmi_remap(x, l)			memremap(x, l, MEMREMAP_WB)
+#define dmi_unmap(x)			memunmap(x)
+#define dmi_alloc(l)			kzalloc(l, GFP_KERNEL)
+
+#endif
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
index 5d17f377d905..82cd07592519 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
  *
  */
 
-#include <linux/dmi.h>
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 
@@ -117,20 +116,6 @@ int __init efi_set_mapping_permissions(struct mm_struct *mm,
 				   set_permissions, md);
 }
 
-static int __init arm64_dmi_init(void)
-{
-	/*
-	 * On arm64, DMI depends on UEFI, and dmi_scan_machine() needs to
-	 * be called early because dmi_id_init(), which is an arch_initcall
-	 * itself, depends on dmi_scan_machine() having been called already.
-	 */
-	dmi_scan_machine();
-	if (dmi_available)
-		dmi_set_dump_stack_arch_desc();
-	return 0;
-}
-core_initcall(arm64_dmi_init);
-
 /*
  * UpdateCapsule() depends on the system being shutdown via
  * ResetSystem().
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/arm-runtime.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/arm-runtime.c
index 974c5a31a005..1cc41c3d6315 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/arm-runtime.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/arm-runtime.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  *
  */
 
+#include <linux/dmi.h>
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
@@ -166,3 +167,18 @@ void efi_virtmap_unload(void)
 	efi_set_pgd(current->active_mm);
 	preempt_enable();
 }
+
+
+static int __init arm_dmi_init(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * On arm64/ARM, DMI depends on UEFI, and dmi_scan_machine() needs to
+	 * be called early because dmi_id_init(), which is an arch_initcall
+	 * itself, depends on dmi_scan_machine() having been called already.
+	 */
+	dmi_scan_machine();
+	if (dmi_available)
+		dmi_set_dump_stack_arch_desc();
+	return 0;
+}
+core_initcall(arm_dmi_init);