diff --git a/configs/vexpress_aemv8a_semi_defconfig b/configs/vexpress_aemv8a_semi_defconfig
index 4e375e8..896dd89 100644
--- a/configs/vexpress_aemv8a_semi_defconfig
+++ b/configs/vexpress_aemv8a_semi_defconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN=0x2000
 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING=" vexpress_aemv8a"
 CONFIG_DISTRO_DEFAULTS=y
+CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS=1
 CONFIG_BOOTDELAY=1
 CONFIG_USE_BOOTARGS=y
 CONFIG_BOOTARGS="console=ttyAMA0 earlyprintk=pl011,0x1c090000 debug user_debug=31 loglevel=9"