diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/sama7_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/sama7_defconfig
index d6e27b837f88..d2c09d39bb0e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/sama7_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/sama7_defconfig
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER=15
 CONFIG_UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY=y
 # CONFIG_ATAGS is not set
 CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttyS0,115200 earlyprintk ignore_loglevel"
+CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y
 CONFIG_VFP=y
 CONFIG_NEON=y
 CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON=y