diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-orion.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-orion.txt
index 98bc69815eb3..4f629cc7634a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-orion.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-orion.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,15 @@ Required properties:
     - "marvell,armada-380-spi", for the Armada 38x SoCs
     - "marvell,armada-390-spi", for the Armada 39x SoCs
     - "marvell,armada-xp-spi", for the Armada XP SoCs
-- reg : offset and length of the register set for the device
+- reg : offset and length of the register set for the device.
+	This property can optionally have additional entries to configure
+	the SPI direct access mode that some of the Marvell SoCs support
+	additionally to the normal indirect access (PIO) mode. The values
+	for the MBus "target" and "attribute" are defined in the Marvell
+	SoC "Functional Specifications" Manual in the chapter "Marvell
+	Core Processor Address Decoding".
+	The eight register sets following the control registers refer to
+	chip-select lines 0 through 7 respectively.
 - cell-index : Which of multiple SPI controllers is this.
 Optional properties:
 - interrupts : Is currently not used.
@@ -23,3 +31,42 @@ Example:
 	       interrupts = <23>;
 	       status = "disabled";
        };
+
+Example with SPI direct mode support (optionally):
+	spi0: spi@10600 {
+		compatible = "marvell,orion-spi";
+		#address-cells = <1>;
+		#size-cells = <0>;
+		cell-index = <0>;
+		reg = <MBUS_ID(0xf0, 0x01) 0x10600 0x28>, /* control */
+		      <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x1e) 0 0xffffffff>, /* CS0 */
+		      <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x5e) 0 0xffffffff>, /* CS1 */
+		      <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x9e) 0 0xffffffff>, /* CS2 */
+		      <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0xde) 0 0xffffffff>, /* CS3 */
+		      <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x1f) 0 0xffffffff>, /* CS4 */
+		      <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x5f) 0 0xffffffff>, /* CS5 */
+		      <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x9f) 0 0xffffffff>, /* CS6 */
+		      <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0xdf) 0 0xffffffff>; /* CS7 */
+		interrupts = <23>;
+		status = "disabled";
+	};
+
+To enable the direct mode, the board specific 'ranges' property in the
+'soc' node needs to add the entries for the desired SPI controllers
+and its chip-selects that are used in the direct mode instead of PIO
+mode. Here an example for this (SPI controller 0, device 1 and SPI
+controller 1, device 2 are used in direct mode. All other SPI device
+are used in the default indirect (PIO) mode):
+	soc {
+		/*
+		 * Enable the SPI direct access by configuring an entry
+		 * here in the board-specific ranges property
+		 */
+		ranges = <MBUS_ID(0xf0, 0x01) 0 0 0xf1000000 0x100000>,	/* internal regs */
+			 <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x1d) 0 0 0xfff00000 0x100000>,	/* BootROM       */
+			 <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x5e) 0 0 0xf1100000 0x10000>,	/* SPI0-DEV1 */
+			 <MBUS_ID(0x01, 0x9a) 0 0 0xf1110000 0x10000>;	/* SPI1-DEV2 */
+
+For further information on the MBus bindings, please see the MBus
+DT documentation:
+Documentation/devicetree/bindings/bus/mvebu-mbus.txt
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-orion.c b/drivers/spi/spi-orion.c
index a87cfd4ba17b..604b5dd5d678 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-orion.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-orion.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
+#include <linux/of_address.h>
 #include <linux/of_device.h>
 #include <linux/clk.h>
 #include <linux/sizes.h>
@@ -43,6 +44,9 @@
 #define ORION_SPI_INT_CAUSE_REG		0x10
 #define ORION_SPI_TIMING_PARAMS_REG	0x18
 
+/* Register for the "Direct Mode" */
+#define SPI_DIRECT_WRITE_CONFIG_REG	0x20
+
 #define ORION_SPI_TMISO_SAMPLE_MASK	(0x3 << 6)
 #define ORION_SPI_TMISO_SAMPLE_1	(1 << 6)
 #define ORION_SPI_TMISO_SAMPLE_2	(2 << 6)
@@ -78,11 +82,18 @@ struct orion_spi_dev {
 	bool			is_errata_50mhz_ac;
 };
 
+struct orion_direct_acc {
+	void __iomem		*vaddr;
+	u32			size;
+};
+
 struct orion_spi {
 	struct spi_master	*master;
 	void __iomem		*base;
 	struct clk              *clk;
 	const struct orion_spi_dev *devdata;
+
+	struct orion_direct_acc	direct_access[ORION_NUM_CHIPSELECTS];
 };
 
 static inline void __iomem *spi_reg(struct orion_spi *orion_spi, u32 reg)
@@ -372,10 +383,38 @@ orion_spi_write_read(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_transfer *xfer)
 {
 	unsigned int count;
 	int word_len;
+	struct orion_spi *orion_spi;
+	int cs = spi->chip_select;
 
 	word_len = spi->bits_per_word;
 	count = xfer->len;
 
+	orion_spi = spi_master_get_devdata(spi->master);
+
+	/*
+	 * Use SPI direct write mode if base address is available. Otherwise
+	 * fall back to PIO mode for this transfer.
+	 */
+	if ((orion_spi->direct_access[cs].vaddr) && (xfer->tx_buf) &&
+	    (word_len == 8)) {
+		unsigned int cnt = count / 4;
+		unsigned int rem = count % 4;
+
+		/*
+		 * Send the TX-data to the SPI device via the direct
+		 * mapped address window
+		 */
+		writesl(orion_spi->direct_access[cs].vaddr, xfer->tx_buf, cnt);
+		if (rem) {
+			u32 *buf = (u32 *)xfer->tx_buf;
+
+			writesb(orion_spi->direct_access[cs].vaddr, &buf[cnt],
+				rem);
+		}
+
+		return count;
+	}
+
 	if (word_len == 8) {
 		const u8 *tx = xfer->tx_buf;
 		u8 *rx = xfer->rx_buf;
@@ -425,6 +464,10 @@ static int orion_spi_reset(struct orion_spi *orion_spi)
 {
 	/* Verify that the CS is deasserted */
 	orion_spi_clrbits(orion_spi, ORION_SPI_IF_CTRL_REG, 0x1);
+
+	/* Don't deassert CS between the direct mapped SPI transfers */
+	writel(0, spi_reg(orion_spi, SPI_DIRECT_WRITE_CONFIG_REG));
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -504,6 +547,7 @@ static int orion_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct resource *r;
 	unsigned long tclk_hz;
 	int status = 0;
+	struct device_node *np;
 
 	master = spi_alloc_master(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*spi));
 	if (master == NULL) {
@@ -576,6 +620,49 @@ static int orion_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		goto out_rel_clk;
 	}
 
+	/* Scan all SPI devices of this controller for direct mapped devices */
+	for_each_available_child_of_node(pdev->dev.of_node, np) {
+		u32 cs;
+
+		/* Get chip-select number from the "reg" property */
+		status = of_property_read_u32(np, "reg", &cs);
+		if (status) {
+			dev_err(&pdev->dev,
+				"%s has no valid 'reg' property (%d)\n",
+				np->full_name, status);
+			status = 0;
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		/*
+		 * Check if an address is configured for this SPI device. If
+		 * not, the MBus mapping via the 'ranges' property in the 'soc'
+		 * node is not configured and this device should not use the
+		 * direct mode. In this case, just continue with the next
+		 * device.
+		 */
+		status = of_address_to_resource(pdev->dev.of_node, cs + 1, r);
+		if (status)
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Only map one page for direct access. This is enough for the
+		 * simple TX transfer which only writes to the first word.
+		 * This needs to get extended for the direct SPI-NOR / SPI-NAND
+		 * support, once this gets implemented.
+		 */
+		spi->direct_access[cs].vaddr = devm_ioremap(&pdev->dev,
+							    r->start,
+							    PAGE_SIZE);
+		if (IS_ERR(spi->direct_access[cs].vaddr)) {
+			status = PTR_ERR(spi->direct_access[cs].vaddr);
+			goto out_rel_clk;
+		}
+		spi->direct_access[cs].size = PAGE_SIZE;
+
+		dev_info(&pdev->dev, "CS%d configured for direct access\n", cs);
+	}
+
 	pm_runtime_set_active(&pdev->dev);
 	pm_runtime_use_autosuspend(&pdev->dev);
 	pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay(&pdev->dev, SPI_AUTOSUSPEND_TIMEOUT);
