diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cm.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cm.h
index 1afa85db1fb3..3bfe0633b576 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cm.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cm.h
@@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ extern phys_addr_t mips_cm_l2sync_phys_base(void);
  */
 extern int mips_cm_is64;
 
+/*
+ * mips_cm_is_l2_hci_broken  - determine if HCI is broken
+ *
+ * Some CM reports show that Hardware Cache Initialization is
+ * complete, but in reality it's not the case. They also incorrectly
+ * indicate that Hardware Cache Initialization is supported. This
+ * flags allows warning about this broken feature.
+ */
+extern bool mips_cm_is_l2_hci_broken;
+
 /**
  * mips_cm_error_report - Report CM cache errors
  */
@@ -97,6 +107,18 @@ static inline bool mips_cm_present(void)
 #endif
 }
 
+/**
+ * mips_cm_update_property - update property from the device tree
+ *
+ * Retrieve the properties from the device tree if a CM node exist and
+ * update the internal variable based on this.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_CM
+extern void mips_cm_update_property(void);
+#else
+static void mips_cm_update_property(void) {}
+#endif
+
 /**
  * mips_cm_has_l2sync - determine whether an L2-only sync region is present
  *
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c b/arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c
index 9854bc2b6895..43cb1e20baed 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/of.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@
 void __iomem *mips_gcr_base;
 void __iomem *mips_cm_l2sync_base;
 int mips_cm_is64;
+bool mips_cm_is_l2_hci_broken;
 
 static char *cm2_tr[8] = {
 	"mem",	"gcr",	"gic",	"mmio",
@@ -237,6 +239,18 @@ static void mips_cm_probe_l2sync(void)
 	mips_cm_l2sync_base = ioremap(addr, MIPS_CM_L2SYNC_SIZE);
 }
 
+void mips_cm_update_property(void)
+{
+	struct device_node *cm_node;
+
+	cm_node = of_find_compatible_node(of_root, NULL, "mobileye,eyeq6-cm");
+	if (!cm_node)
+		return;
+	pr_info("HCI (Hardware Cache Init for the L2 cache) in GCR_L2_RAM_CONFIG from the CM3 is broken");
+	mips_cm_is_l2_hci_broken = true;
+	of_node_put(cm_node);
+}
+
 int mips_cm_probe(void)
 {
 	phys_addr_t addr;