diff --git a/README b/README
index 4ca04d0489..5af345b086 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4007,6 +4007,25 @@ Configuration Settings:
 		boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
 		enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
 
+- CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
+		Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
+		typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
+		uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
+		otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
+		some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
+		cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
+		are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
+		cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
+		if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
+		size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
+		one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
+		written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
+		happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
+		buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
+		16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
+
+		Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
+
 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
 		Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
 		uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/system.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/system.h
index 61e2914d44..89f2294689 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/system.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/system.h
@@ -212,6 +212,11 @@ void mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour(phys_addr_t start, size_t size,
  */
 void mmu_page_table_flush(unsigned long start, unsigned long stop);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY
+void noncached_init(void);
+phys_addr_t noncached_alloc(size_t size, size_t align);
+#endif /* CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY */
+
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #define arch_align_stack(x) (x)
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/cache.c b/arch/arm/lib/cache.c
index f1c0792ce8..9cedeac6d6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/cache.c
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/cache.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 /* for now: just dummy functions to satisfy the linker */
 
 #include <common.h>
+#include <malloc.h>
 
 __weak void flush_cache(unsigned long start, unsigned long size)
 {
@@ -49,3 +50,46 @@ __weak void enable_caches(void)
 {
 	puts("WARNING: Caches not enabled\n");
 }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY
+/*
+ * Reserve one MMU section worth of address space below the malloc() area that
+ * will be mapped uncached.
+ */
+static unsigned long noncached_start;
+static unsigned long noncached_end;
+static unsigned long noncached_next;
+
+void noncached_init(void)
+{
+	phys_addr_t start, end;
+	size_t size;
+
+	end = ALIGN(mem_malloc_start, MMU_SECTION_SIZE) - MMU_SECTION_SIZE;
+	size = ALIGN(CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY, MMU_SECTION_SIZE);
+	start = end - size;
+
+	debug("mapping memory %pa-%pa non-cached\n", &start, &end);
+
+	noncached_start = start;
+	noncached_end = end;
+	noncached_next = start;
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF
+	mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour(noncached_start, size, DCACHE_OFF);
+#endif
+}
+
+phys_addr_t noncached_alloc(size_t size, size_t align)
+{
+	phys_addr_t next = ALIGN(noncached_next, align);
+
+	if (next >= noncached_end || (noncached_end - next) < size)
+		return 0;
+
+	debug("allocated %zu bytes of uncached memory @%pa\n", size, &next);
+	noncached_next = next + size;
+
+	return next;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY */
diff --git a/common/board_r.c b/common/board_r.c
index 4eb7a023d4..a301cc226f 100644
--- a/common/board_r.c
+++ b/common/board_r.c
@@ -265,6 +265,14 @@ static int initr_malloc(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY
+static int initr_noncached(void)
+{
+	noncached_init();
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DM
 static int initr_dm(void)
 {
@@ -687,6 +695,9 @@ init_fnc_t init_sequence_r[] = {
 #endif
 	initr_barrier,
 	initr_malloc,
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY
+	initr_noncached,
+#endif
 	bootstage_relocate,
 #ifdef CONFIG_DM
 	initr_dm,