diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index b8616a0bf93ed3b8baab20761836eea4a5a56f86..002845e820f3ddd6c82e6535041d7e763a9415b4 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -536,6 +536,7 @@ config PMC_YOSEMITE
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_HIGHMEM
+	select SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
 	help
 	  Yosemite is an evaluation board for the RM9000x2 processor
 	  manufactured by PMC-Sierra.
@@ -590,6 +591,7 @@ config SGI_IP22
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
+	select SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
 	help
 	  This are the SGI Indy, Challenge S and Indigo2, as well as certain
 	  OEM variants like the Tandem CMN B006S. To compile a Linux kernel
@@ -1678,8 +1680,8 @@ source "mm/Kconfig"
 
 config SMP
 	bool "Multi-Processing support"
-	depends on CPU_RM9000 || ((SIBYTE_BCM1x80 || SIBYTE_BCM1x55 || SIBYTE_SB1250 || QEMU) && !SIBYTE_STANDALONE) || SGI_IP27 || MIPS_MT_SMP || MIPS_MT_SMTC
-	---help---
+	depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
+	help
 	  This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
 	  a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If
 	  you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y.
@@ -1698,6 +1700,9 @@ config SMP
 
 	  If you don't know what to do here, say N.
 
+config SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
+	bool
+
 config NR_CPUS
 	int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-64)"
 	range 2 64
diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/Kconfig b/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/Kconfig
index f14ef38646d02258cf7997844bb76c60f7c12414..5e960ae9735afcea622e4e848a1a13645cfd329c 100644
--- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip27/Kconfig
@@ -33,12 +33,13 @@ config MAPPED_KERNEL
 	depends on SGI_IP27
 	help
 	  Change the way a Linux kernel is loaded into memory on a MIPS64
-	  machine.  This is required in order to support text replication and
+	  machine.  This is required in order to support text replication on
 	  NUMA.  If you need to understand it, read the source code.
 
 config REPLICATE_KTEXT
 	bool "Kernel text replication support"
 	depends on SGI_IP27
+	select MAPPED_KERNEL
 	help
 	  Say Y here to enable replicating the kernel text across multiple
 	  nodes in a NUMA cluster.  This trades memory for speed.
diff --git a/arch/mips/sibyte/Kconfig b/arch/mips/sibyte/Kconfig
index 816aee7fcd25306009c409eec4d6a284c9b1676b..ec7a2cffacf01430485da171a33142ee9de5f1f6 100644
--- a/arch/mips/sibyte/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/sibyte/Kconfig
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config SIBYTE_SB1250
 	select HW_HAS_PCI
 	select SIBYTE_HAS_LDT
 	select SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC
+	select SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
 
 config SIBYTE_BCM1120
 	bool
@@ -30,11 +31,13 @@ config SIBYTE_BCM1x80
 	bool
 	select HW_HAS_PCI
 	select SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC
+	select SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
 
 config SIBYTE_BCM1x55
 	bool
 	select HW_HAS_PCI
 	select SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC
+	select SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
 
 config SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC
 	bool