diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b4b185aacd..c4ed454e06 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -945,6 +945,7 @@ T:	git https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-microblaze.git
 F:	drivers/fpga/
 F:	cmd/fpga.c
 F:	include/fpga.h
+F:	test/dm/fpga.c
 
 FLATTENED DEVICE TREE
 M:	Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
diff --git a/arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts b/arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts
index 4ee471238e..a7b49f315b 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts
+++ b/arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts
@@ -652,6 +652,10 @@
 		};
 	};
 
+	fpga {
+		compatible = "sandbox,fpga";
+	};
+
 	pinctrl-gpio {
 		compatible = "sandbox,pinctrl-gpio";
 
diff --git a/drivers/fpga/Kconfig b/drivers/fpga/Kconfig
index e07a9cf80e..e2fd16e6d2 100644
--- a/drivers/fpga/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/fpga/Kconfig
@@ -118,4 +118,23 @@ config SPL_FPGA_LOAD_SECURE
 	  Enables the fpga loads() functions that are used to load secure
 	  (authenticated or encrypted or both) bitstreams on to FPGA.
 
+config DM_FPGA
+	bool "Enable Driver Model for FPGA drivers"
+	depends on DM
+	select FPGA
+	help
+	  Enable driver model for Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices.
+	  The devices cover a wide range of applications and are configured at
+	  runtime by loading a bitstream into the FPGA device.
+	  Loading a bitstream from any kind of storage is the main task of the
+	  FPGA drivers.
+	  For now this uclass has no methods yet.
+
+config SANDBOX_FPGA
+	bool "Enable sandbox FPGA driver"
+	depends on SANDBOX && DM_FPGA
+	help
+	  This is a driver model based FPGA driver for sandbox.
+	  Currently it is a stub only, as there are no usable uclass methods yet.
+
 endmenu
diff --git a/drivers/fpga/Makefile b/drivers/fpga/Makefile
index 83243fb107..610c168fc3 100644
--- a/drivers/fpga/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/fpga/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
 
 obj-y += fpga.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DM_FPGA) += fpga-uclass.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SANDBOX_FPGA) += sandbox.o
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_FPGA_SPARTAN2) += spartan2.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FPGA_SPARTAN3) += spartan3.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FPGA_VERSALPL) += versalpl.o
diff --git a/drivers/fpga/fpga-uclass.c b/drivers/fpga/fpga-uclass.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4278ec28e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/fpga/fpga-uclass.c
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+/*
+ * Copyright 2022 Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de>
+ */
+
+#include <dm.h>
+
+UCLASS_DRIVER(fpga) = {
+	.name	= "fpga",
+	.id	= UCLASS_FPGA,
+};
diff --git a/drivers/fpga/sandbox.c b/drivers/fpga/sandbox.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f17a822179
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/fpga/sandbox.c
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+/*
+ * Copyright 2022 Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de>
+ */
+
+#include <dm.h>
+
+static const struct udevice_id sandbox_fpga_match[] = {
+	{ .compatible = "sandbox,fpga" },
+	{ /* sentinel */ }
+};
+
+U_BOOT_DRIVER(sandbox_fpga) = {
+	.name	= "sandbox_fpga",
+	.id	= UCLASS_FPGA,
+	.of_match = sandbox_fpga_match,
+};
diff --git a/include/dm/uclass-id.h b/include/dm/uclass-id.h
index a432e43871..c2b15881ba 100644
--- a/include/dm/uclass-id.h
+++ b/include/dm/uclass-id.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ enum uclass_id {
 	UCLASS_ETH,		/* Ethernet device */
 	UCLASS_ETH_PHY,		/* Ethernet PHY device */
 	UCLASS_FIRMWARE,	/* Firmware */
+	UCLASS_FPGA,		/* FPGA device */
 	UCLASS_FUZZING_ENGINE,	/* Fuzzing engine */
 	UCLASS_FS_FIRMWARE_LOADER,		/* Generic loader */
 	UCLASS_GPIO,		/* Bank of general-purpose I/O pins */
diff --git a/test/dm/Makefile b/test/dm/Makefile
index 5178daa7cf..499e76980d 100644
--- a/test/dm/Makefile
+++ b/test/dm/Makefile
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION),)
 obj-$(CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH_MMC) += fastboot.o
 endif
 obj-$(CONFIG_FIRMWARE) += firmware.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DM_FPGA) += fpga.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DM_HWSPINLOCK) += hwspinlock.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DM_I2C) += i2c.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SOUND) += i2s.o
diff --git a/test/dm/fpga.c b/test/dm/fpga.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8bb3535853
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/dm/fpga.c
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+/*
+ * Copyright 2022 Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de>
+ */
+
+#include <dm.h>
+#include <dm/test.h>
+#include <test/test.h>
+#include <test/ut.h>
+
+static int dm_test_fpga(struct unit_test_state *uts)
+{
+	struct udevice *dev;
+
+	ut_assertok(uclass_first_device_err(UCLASS_FPGA, &dev));
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+DM_TEST(dm_test_fpga, UT_TESTF_SCAN_FDT);