diff --git a/arch/arm/defconfig b/arch/arm/defconfig
index 3429074cb82..7774cf346f7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/defconfig
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ CONFIG_CPU_CORTEXM4=y
 CONFIG_LDREX_STREX_AVAILABLE=y
 CONFIG_DATA_ENDIANNESS_LITTLE=y
 CONFIG_STACK_ALIGN_DOUBLE_WORD=y
-CONFIG_NUM_IRQS=1
 CONFIG_STACK_GROWS_DOWN=y
 CONFIG_NUM_IRQ_PRIO_BITS=4
 # CONFIG_RUNTIME_NMI is not set
@@ -110,6 +109,7 @@ CONFIG_IRQ_VECTOR_TABLE_BSP=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_TASK_ABORT=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NANO_FIBER_ABORT=y
 CONFIG_BSP_DIR="fsl_frdm_k64f"
+CONFIG_NUM_IRQS=34
 CONFIG_WDOG_INIT=y
 
 #