diff --git a/README b/README
index 276869a3d8..70dd97d64d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3849,12 +3849,9 @@ Configuration Settings:
 		The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotton) when
 		U-Boot relocates itself.
 
-		Pre-relocation malloc() is only supported on sandbox
+		Pre-relocation malloc() is only supported on ARM and sandbox
 		at present but is fairly easy to enable for other archs.
 
-		Pre-relocation malloc() is only supported on ARM at present
-		but is fairly easy to enable for other archs.
-
 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
 		Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
 		uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
diff --git a/drivers/core/device.c b/drivers/core/device.c
index 166b0732ab..32e80e82b5 100644
--- a/drivers/core/device.c
+++ b/drivers/core/device.c
@@ -106,13 +106,18 @@ int device_bind(struct udevice *parent, struct driver *drv, const char *name,
 	 * a 'requested' sequence, and will be resolved (and ->seq updated)
 	 * when the device is probed.
 	 */
-	dev->req_seq = fdtdec_get_int(gd->fdt_blob, of_offset, "reg", -1);
 	dev->seq = -1;
+#ifdef CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
+	dev->req_seq = fdtdec_get_int(gd->fdt_blob, of_offset, "reg", -1);
+	if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(dev->req_seq))
+		dev->req_seq &= INT_MAX;
 	if (uc->uc_drv->name && of_offset != -1) {
 		fdtdec_get_alias_seq(gd->fdt_blob, uc->uc_drv->name, of_offset,
 				     &dev->req_seq);
 	}
-
+#else
+	dev->req_seq = -1;
+#endif
 	if (!dev->platdata && drv->platdata_auto_alloc_size)
 		dev->flags |= DM_FLAG_ALLOC_PDATA;
 
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi/sf_params.c b/drivers/mtd/spi/sf_params.c
index ac886fd071..856eb4cfbe 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/spi/sf_params.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/spi/sf_params.c
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ const struct spi_flash_params spi_flash_params_table[] = {
 	{"W25Q64DW",	   0xef6017, 0x0,	64 * 1024,   128, RD_FULL,	    WR_QPP | SECT_4K},
 	{"W25Q128FW",	   0xef6018, 0x0,	64 * 1024,   256, RD_FULL,	    WR_QPP | SECT_4K},
 #endif
+	{},	/* Empty entry to terminate the list */
 	/*
 	 * Note:
 	 * Below paired flash devices has similar spi_flash params.
diff --git a/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c b/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
index d04104e747..1ac943f692 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ struct udevice *cur_dev __attribute__ ((section(".data")));
 
 static void serial_find_console_or_panic(void)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
 	int node;
 
 	/* Check for a chosen console */
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ static void serial_find_console_or_panic(void)
 			return;
 		cur_dev = NULL;
 	}
-
+#endif
 	/*
 	 * Failing that, get the device with sequence number 0, or in extremis
 	 * just the first serial device we can find. But we insist on having