diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 8f5b456..5d88489 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -115,12 +115,17 @@
 # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
 config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 	bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
-	depends on SPARSEMEM && HOTPLUG && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+	depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
+	depends on HOTPLUG && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 	depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC64)
 
 comment "Memory hotplug is currently incompatible with Software Suspend"
 	depends on SPARSEMEM && HOTPLUG && SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
 
+config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
+	def_bool y
+	depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+
 # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
 # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
 # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.