diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index dab92a7..78cc059 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6629,6 +6629,14 @@
 S:	Maintained
 F:	sound/soc/omap/
 
+OMAP GENERAL PURPOSE MEMORY CONTROLLER SUPPORT
+M:	Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>
+M:	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
+L:	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
+S:	Maintained
+F:	drivers/memory/omap-gpmc.c
+F:	arch/arm/mach-omap2/*gpmc*
+
 OMAP FRAMEBUFFER SUPPORT
 M:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
 L:	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig
index f4d06ae..0ea218e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig
@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@
 	select CLKSRC_MMIO
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP
 	select MACH_OMAP_GENERIC
+	select MEMORY
 	select OMAP_DM_TIMER
+	select OMAP_GPMC
 	select PINCTRL
 	select SOC_BUS
 	select TI_PRIV_EDMA
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Makefile b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Makefile
index 3e824f8..bd85741 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 	-I$(srctree)/arch/arm/plat-omap/include
 
 # Common support
-obj-y := id.o io.o control.o mux.o devices.o fb.o serial.o gpmc.o timer.o pm.o \
+obj-y := id.o io.o control.o mux.o devices.o fb.o serial.o timer.o pm.o \
 	 common.o gpio.o dma.o wd_timer.o display.o i2c.o hdq1w.o omap_hwmod.o \
 	 omap_device.o sram.o drm.o
 
diff --git a/drivers/memory/Kconfig b/drivers/memory/Kconfig
index 6d91c27..6759de7 100644
--- a/drivers/memory/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/memory/Kconfig
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@
 	  parameters and other settings during frequency, voltage and
 	  temperature changes
 
+config OMAP_GPMC
+	bool
+	help
+	  This driver is for the General Purpose Memory Controller (GPMC)
+	  present on Texas Instruments SoCs (e.g. OMAP2+). GPMC allows
+	  interfacing to a variety of asynchronous as well as synchronous
+	  memory drives like NOR, NAND, OneNAND, SRAM.
+
 config MVEBU_DEVBUS
 	bool "Marvell EBU Device Bus Controller"
 	default y
diff --git a/drivers/memory/Makefile b/drivers/memory/Makefile
index c32d319..a7d410f 100644
--- a/drivers/memory/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/memory/Makefile
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_ATMEL_SDRAMC)	+= atmel-sdramc.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TI_AEMIF)		+= ti-aemif.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TI_EMIF)		+= emif.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_OMAP_GPMC)		+= omap-gpmc.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_CORENET_CF)	+= fsl-corenet-cf.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_IFC)		+= fsl_ifc.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MVEBU_DEVBUS)	+= mvebu-devbus.o
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/gpmc.c b/drivers/memory/omap-gpmc.c
similarity index 100%
rename from arch/arm/mach-omap2/gpmc.c
rename to drivers/memory/omap-gpmc.c