diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
index 83de0273d474..6e67d6110249 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
 
 config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
 	def_bool y
+	depends on BROKEN
 	help
 	  Say Y to support efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
 	  for architectures which are either NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)
@@ -299,12 +300,11 @@ config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
 
 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 	def_bool y
-	depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
 	select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
 
-config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
+config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
 	def_bool y
-	depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
+	depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 
 config NUMA
 	bool "NUMA support"