diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/fixmap.h
index 1ff075a8dfc7..11613f38228a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/fixmap.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/fixmap.h
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@
  */
 enum fixed_addresses {
 	FIX_HOLE,
-#define FIX_FDT_SIZE	SZ_1M
-	FIX_FDT_END,
-	FIX_FDT = FIX_FDT_END + FIX_FDT_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE - 1,
 	FIX_PTE,
 	FIX_PMD,
 	FIX_TEXT_POKE1,
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index eaea1f717010..815f8c959dd4 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -464,6 +464,7 @@ static inline void __kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enabl
 #define kern_addr_valid(addr)   (1) /* FIXME */
 
 extern void *dtb_early_va;
+extern uintptr_t dtb_early_pa;
 void setup_bootmem(void);
 void paging_init(void);
 
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
index 9ade707b8ed8..703e59d717f0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
@@ -258,7 +258,6 @@ clear_bss_done:
 #endif
 	/* Start the kernel */
 	call soc_early_init
-	call parse_dtb
 	tail start_kernel
 
 .Lsecondary_start:
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/head.h b/arch/riscv/kernel/head.h
index 105fb0496b24..b48dda3d04f6 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/head.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/head.h
@@ -16,6 +16,4 @@ asmlinkage void __init setup_vm(uintptr_t dtb_pa);
 extern void *__cpu_up_stack_pointer[];
 extern void *__cpu_up_task_pointer[];
 
-void __init parse_dtb(void);
-
 #endif /* __ASM_HEAD_H */
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
index 2c6dd329312b..edea7ef88402 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
@@ -48,8 +48,9 @@ atomic_t hart_lottery __section(.sdata);
 unsigned long boot_cpu_hartid;
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu, cpu_devices);
 
-void __init parse_dtb(void)
+static void __init parse_dtb(void)
 {
+	/* Early scan of device tree from init memory */
 	if (early_init_dt_scan(dtb_early_va))
 		return;
 
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ void __init parse_dtb(void)
 
 void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 {
+	parse_dtb();
 	init_mm.start_code = (unsigned long) _stext;
 	init_mm.end_code   = (unsigned long) _etext;
 	init_mm.end_data   = (unsigned long) _edata;
@@ -76,7 +78,10 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB)
 	unflatten_and_copy_device_tree();
 #else
-	unflatten_device_tree();
+	if (early_init_dt_verify(__va(dtb_early_pa)))
+		unflatten_device_tree();
+	else
+		pr_err("No DTB found in kernel mappings\n");
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 787c75f751a5..2b651f63f5c4 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)]
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page);
 
 extern char _start[];
-void *dtb_early_va;
+#define DTB_EARLY_BASE_VA      PGDIR_SIZE
+void *dtb_early_va __initdata;
+uintptr_t dtb_early_pa __initdata;
 
 static void __init zone_sizes_init(void)
 {
@@ -141,8 +143,6 @@ disable:
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD */
 
-static phys_addr_t dtb_early_pa __initdata;
-
 void __init setup_bootmem(void)
 {
 	struct memblock_region *reg;
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ static uintptr_t __init best_map_size(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
 
 asmlinkage void __init setup_vm(uintptr_t dtb_pa)
 {
-	uintptr_t va, end_va;
+	uintptr_t va, pa, end_va;
 	uintptr_t load_pa = (uintptr_t)(&_start);
 	uintptr_t load_sz = (uintptr_t)(&_end) - load_pa;
 	uintptr_t map_size = best_map_size(load_pa, MAX_EARLY_MAPPING_SIZE);
@@ -448,16 +448,13 @@ asmlinkage void __init setup_vm(uintptr_t dtb_pa)
 				   load_pa + (va - PAGE_OFFSET),
 				   map_size, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
 
-	/* Create fixed mapping for early FDT parsing */
-	end_va = __fix_to_virt(FIX_FDT) + FIX_FDT_SIZE;
-	for (va = __fix_to_virt(FIX_FDT); va < end_va; va += PAGE_SIZE)
-		create_pte_mapping(fixmap_pte, va,
-				   dtb_pa + (va - __fix_to_virt(FIX_FDT)),
-				   PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_KERNEL);
-
-	/* Save pointer to DTB for early FDT parsing */
-	dtb_early_va = (void *)fix_to_virt(FIX_FDT) + (dtb_pa & ~PAGE_MASK);
-	/* Save physical address for memblock reservation */
+	/* Create two consecutive PGD mappings for FDT early scan */
+	pa = dtb_pa & ~(PGDIR_SIZE - 1);
+	create_pgd_mapping(early_pg_dir, DTB_EARLY_BASE_VA,
+			   pa, PGDIR_SIZE, PAGE_KERNEL);
+	create_pgd_mapping(early_pg_dir, DTB_EARLY_BASE_VA + PGDIR_SIZE,
+			   pa + PGDIR_SIZE, PGDIR_SIZE, PAGE_KERNEL);
+	dtb_early_va = (void *)DTB_EARLY_BASE_VA + (dtb_pa & (PGDIR_SIZE - 1));
 	dtb_early_pa = dtb_pa;
 }
 
@@ -516,6 +513,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init setup_vm(uintptr_t dtb_pa)
 #else
 	dtb_early_va = (void *)dtb_pa;
 #endif
+	dtb_early_pa = dtb_pa;
 }
 
 static inline void setup_vm_final(void)