diff --git a/drivers/bus/mips_cdmm.c b/drivers/bus/mips_cdmm.c
index 1b14256376d2..9f7ed1fcd428 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/mips_cdmm.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/mips_cdmm.c
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
+#include <linux/of_address.h>
+#include <linux/of.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
@@ -337,9 +339,22 @@ static phys_addr_t mips_cdmm_cur_base(void)
  * Picking a suitable physical address at which to map the CDMM region is
  * platform specific, so this weak function can be overridden by platform
  * code to pick a suitable value if none is configured by the bootloader.
+ * By default this method tries to find a CDMM-specific node in the system
+ * dtb. Note that this won't work for early serial console.
  */
 phys_addr_t __weak mips_cdmm_phys_base(void)
 {
+	struct device_node *np;
+	struct resource res;
+	int err;
+
+	np = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "mti,mips-cdmm");
+	if (np) {
+		err = of_address_to_resource(np, 0, &res);
+		if (!err)
+			return res.start;
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 }