diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index cfa2af9f7a..b426ea605a 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@
 [submodule "pixman"]
 	path = pixman
 	url = git://anongit.freedesktop.org/pixman
+[submodule "dtc"]
+	path = dtc
+	url = git://git.qemu.org/dtc.git
diff --git a/dtc b/dtc
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..bc895d6d09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dtc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit bc895d6d09695d05ceb8b52486ffe861d6cfbdde