diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_2835_arm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_2835_arm.c
index b59ef14890aa..afdd3e944f3f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_2835_arm.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_2835_arm.c
@@ -77,7 +77,17 @@ struct vchiq_pagelist_info {
 };
 
 static void __iomem *g_regs;
-static unsigned int g_cache_line_size = sizeof(CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+/* This value is the size of the L2 cache lines as understood by the
+ * VPU firmware, which determines the required alignment of the
+ * offsets/sizes in pagelists.
+ *
+ * Modern VPU firmware looks for a DT "cache-line-size" property in
+ * the VCHIQ node and will overwrite it with the actual L2 cache size,
+ * which the kernel must then respect.  That property was rejected
+ * upstream, so we have to use the VPU firmware's compatibility value
+ * of 32.
+ */
+static unsigned int g_cache_line_size = 32;
 static unsigned int g_fragments_size;
 static char *g_fragments_base;
 static char *g_free_fragments;
@@ -117,14 +127,6 @@ int vchiq_platform_init(struct platform_device *pdev, VCHIQ_STATE_T *state)
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
 
-	err = of_property_read_u32(dev->of_node, "cache-line-size",
-				   &g_cache_line_size);
-
-	if (err) {
-		dev_err(dev, "Missing cache-line-size property\n");
-		return -ENODEV;
-	}
-
 	g_fragments_size = 2 * g_cache_line_size;
 
 	/* Allocate space for the channels in coherent memory */
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_pagelist.h b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_pagelist.h
index a6c5f7cc78f0..bec411061554 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_pagelist.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_pagelist.h
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 #ifndef VCHIQ_PAGELIST_H
 #define VCHIQ_PAGELIST_H
 
-#define CACHE_LINE_SIZE 32
 #define PAGELIST_WRITE 0
 #define PAGELIST_READ 1
 #define PAGELIST_READ_WITH_FRAGMENTS 2