diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
index 61310b08a0be0cb8b3fde2a480334145a17eda2e..45be50d8faefdd9df93537f7192e284c6f6df7c2 100644
--- a/Kconfig
+++ b/Kconfig
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ config ARCH_ARM_V7A
     bool
     default n
 
+config KERNEL_MASTER
+    bool
+    default y
+
 # Native word size of the current platform. This is primarily intended for use
 # in code generators that need to know, at generation-time, the word size of
 # the target platform.