diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/Makefile b/arch/arm/dts/Makefile
index eaad3b679c..2d92b2f940 100644
--- a/arch/arm/dts/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/dts/Makefile
@@ -1162,7 +1162,7 @@ dtb-$(CONFIG_TARGET_IMX8MM_CL_IOT_GATE_OPTEE) += imx8mm-cl-iot-gate-optee.dtb
 
 dtb-$(CONFIG_TARGET_EA_LPC3250DEVKITV2) += lpc3250-ea3250.dtb
 
-dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QEMU) += qemu-arm.dtb
+dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_QEMU) += qemu-arm.dtb qemu-arm64.dtb
 
 targets += $(dtb-y)
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/qemu-arm64.dts b/arch/arm/dts/qemu-arm64.dts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..096b391072
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/dts/qemu-arm64.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ OR MIT
+/*
+ * Empty device tree for qemu_arm64
+
+ * Copyright 2021 Google LLC
+ */
+
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/ {
+};
diff --git a/configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig b/configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig
index 0ac3b477bb..7d03eb76d4 100644
--- a/configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig
+++ b/configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN=0x1000000
 CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS=1
 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE=0x40000
 CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE=0x40000
+CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="qemu-arm64"
 CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_BASE=0x9000000
 CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_CLOCK=0
 CONFIG_DEBUG_UART=y