diff --git a/configs/sandbox_spl_defconfig b/configs/sandbox_spl_defconfig
index 6741cd0c52..77dd83cf6f 100644
--- a/configs/sandbox_spl_defconfig
+++ b/configs/sandbox_spl_defconfig
@@ -224,6 +224,8 @@ CONFIG_RSA_VERIFY_WITH_PKEY=y
 CONFIG_TPM=y
 CONFIG_LZ4=y
 CONFIG_ERRNO_STR=y
+CONFIG_HEXDUMP=y
+CONFIG_SPL_HEXDUMP=y
 CONFIG_UNIT_TEST=y
 CONFIG_SPL_UNIT_TEST=y
 CONFIG_UT_TIME=y
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index fdcf7ea405..7b445d0164 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig
@@ -566,8 +566,7 @@ config HEXDUMP
 
 config SPL_HEXDUMP
 	bool "Enable hexdump in SPL"
-	depends on HEXDUMP
-	default y
+	depends on SPL && HEXDUMP
 	help
 	  This enables functions for printing dumps of binary data in
 	  SPL.