diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index 659e0079487f..8e0b3702f1c0 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ config LANTIQ
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_MIPS16
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_MULTITHREADING
+	select SYS_SUPPORTS_VPE_LOADER
 	select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK
 	select GPIOLIB
 	select SWAP_IO_SPACE
@@ -517,6 +518,7 @@ config MIPS_MALTA
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_MIPS16
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_MULTITHREADING
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_SMARTMIPS
+	select SYS_SUPPORTS_VPE_LOADER
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_RELOCATABLE
 	select USE_OF
@@ -2282,9 +2284,16 @@ config MIPSR2_TO_R6_EMULATOR
 	  The only reason this is a build-time option is to save ~14K from the
 	  final kernel image.
 
+config SYS_SUPPORTS_VPE_LOADER
+	bool
+	depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_MULTITHREADING
+	help
+	  Indicates that the platform supports the VPE loader, and provides
+	  physical_memsize.
+
 config MIPS_VPE_LOADER
 	bool "VPE loader support."
-	depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_MULTITHREADING && MODULES
+	depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_VPE_LOADER && MODULES
 	select CPU_MIPSR2_IRQ_VI
 	select CPU_MIPSR2_IRQ_EI
 	select MIPS_MT