diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
index bf9003ee7aba..9097500de5f4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 menuconfig DRM
 	tristate "Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)"
-	depends on (AGP || AGP=n) && PCI && !EMULATED_CMPXCHG
+	depends on (AGP || AGP=n) && PCI && !EMULATED_CMPXCHG && SHMEM
 	help
 	  Kernel-level support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI)
 	  introduced in XFree86 4.0. If you say Y here, you need to select