diff --git a/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c b/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
index da95e285b70db65f1f6bb709414ca5ff5ec2f8b0..ec5b9db660070a8e7825208288b54975c7a2f042 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
@@ -560,7 +560,6 @@ static int fec_init(struct eth_device *dev, bd_t* bd)
 		}
 		memset(fec->tbd_base, 0, size);
 		fec_tbd_init(fec);
-		flush_dcache_range((unsigned)fec->tbd_base, size);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -737,6 +736,28 @@ static int fec_send(struct eth_device *dev, void *packet, int length)
 	addr = (uint32_t)fec->tbd_base;
 	flush_dcache_range(addr, addr + size);
 
+	/*
+	 * Below we read the DMA descriptor's last four bytes back from the
+	 * DRAM. This is important in order to make sure that all WRITE
+	 * operations on the bus that were triggered by previous cache FLUSH
+	 * have completed.
+	 *
+	 * Otherwise, on MX28, it is possible to observe a corruption of the
+	 * DMA descriptors. Please refer to schematic "Figure 1-2" in MX28RM
+	 * for the bus structure of MX28. The scenario is as follows:
+	 *
+	 * 1) ARM core triggers a series of WRITEs on the AHB_ARB2 bus going
+	 *    to DRAM due to flush_dcache_range()
+	 * 2) ARM core writes the FEC registers via AHB_ARB2
+	 * 3) FEC DMA starts reading/writing from/to DRAM via AHB_ARB3
+	 *
+	 * Note that 2) does sometimes finish before 1) due to reordering of
+	 * WRITE accesses on the AHB bus, therefore triggering 3) before the
+	 * DMA descriptor is fully written into DRAM. This results in occasional
+	 * corruption of the DMA descriptor.
+	 */
+	readl(addr + size - 4);
+
 	/*
 	 * Enable SmartDMA transmit task
 	 */
diff --git a/include/configs/m28evk.h b/include/configs/m28evk.h
index 5b3fa43eb46cbbc0d85f95c849352f385740da74..10ccc3bc375e99a9cb3fb7895f4e5d0c4b50ce65 100644
--- a/include/configs/m28evk.h
+++ b/include/configs/m28evk.h
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
 #define CONFIG_CMD_MII
 #define CONFIG_CMD_MMC
 #define CONFIG_CMD_NAND
+#define CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TRIMFFS
 #define CONFIG_CMD_NET
 #define CONFIG_CMD_NFS
 #define CONFIG_CMD_PING
diff --git a/include/configs/mx51evk.h b/include/configs/mx51evk.h
index 13d1839ebe3ca8aa42151272a711ed9902aa2d90..4383375d0227dabe1b488b1876c458ae43ad5617 100644
--- a/include/configs/mx51evk.h
+++ b/include/configs/mx51evk.h
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@
 	"boot_fdt=try\0" \
 	"ip_dyn=yes\0" \
 	"mmcdev=0\0" \
-	"mmcpart=2\0" \
-	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait rw\0" \
+	"mmcpart=1\0" \
+	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rw\0" \
 	"mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=ttymxc0,${baudrate} " \
 		"root=${mmcroot}\0" \
 	"loadbootscript=" \
diff --git a/include/configs/mx53ard.h b/include/configs/mx53ard.h
index b0a965fbba490bf9da460cb49986350202673e77..fa160e4154894281596ac9dd7830082a030463ac 100644
--- a/include/configs/mx53ard.h
+++ b/include/configs/mx53ard.h
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@
 	"boot_fdt=try\0" \
 	"ip_dyn=yes\0" \
 	"mmcdev=" __stringify(CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV) "\0" \
-	"mmcpart=2\0" \
-	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait rw\0" \
+	"mmcpart=1\0" \
+	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rw\0" \
 	"update_sd_firmware_filename=u-boot.imx\0" \
 	"update_sd_firmware=" \
 		"if test ${ip_dyn} = yes; then " \
diff --git a/include/configs/mx53loco.h b/include/configs/mx53loco.h
index a4b610f9b7647997c4b11d5c09c93d457ec09164..cc31e9b4e711b1edb8535eb0c1f3a347ac900d88 100644
--- a/include/configs/mx53loco.h
+++ b/include/configs/mx53loco.h
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@
 	"boot_fdt=try\0" \
 	"ip_dyn=yes\0" \
 	"mmcdev=0\0" \
-	"mmcpart=2\0" \
-	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rw rootwait\0" \
+	"mmcpart=1\0" \
+	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait\0" \
 	"mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=ttymxc0,${baudrate} root=${mmcroot}\0" \
 	"loadbootscript=" \
 		"fatload mmc ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart} ${loadaddr} ${script};\0" \
diff --git a/include/configs/mx6qsabrelite.h b/include/configs/mx6qsabrelite.h
index b814418481c0192b8364f392d6a3395b37733b24..c7db81d0d83e67efe490df9af571f32139d75274 100644
--- a/include/configs/mx6qsabrelite.h
+++ b/include/configs/mx6qsabrelite.h
@@ -170,8 +170,8 @@
 	"boot_fdt=try\0" \
 	"ip_dyn=yes\0" \
 	"mmcdev=0\0" \
-	"mmcpart=2\0" \
-	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait rw\0" \
+	"mmcpart=1\0" \
+	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rw\0" \
 	"mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=${console},${baudrate} " \
 		"root=${mmcroot}\0" \
 	"loadbootscript=" \
diff --git a/include/configs/mx6slevk.h b/include/configs/mx6slevk.h
index 19dcdd605cc5e1beb31f3cbf7fe1db2e70c5b7db..55e3ad97a1d2ad90949509ff4a5c525c1794beaf 100644
--- a/include/configs/mx6slevk.h
+++ b/include/configs/mx6slevk.h
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@
 	"boot_fdt=try\0" \
 	"ip_dyn=yes\0" \
 	"mmcdev=0\0" \
-	"mmcpart=2\0" \
-	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait rw\0" \
+	"mmcpart=1\0" \
+	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rw\0" \
 	"mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=${console},${baudrate} " \
 		"root=${mmcroot}\0" \
 	"loadbootscript=" \
diff --git a/include/configs/wandboard.h b/include/configs/wandboard.h
index b2995d8ea92775c8de0f218bb574bfc21c367444..ee6bf216bd58e006dfa46657c39ae621e7a1c861 100644
--- a/include/configs/wandboard.h
+++ b/include/configs/wandboard.h
@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@
 	"boot_fdt=try\0" \
 	"ip_dyn=yes\0" \
 	"mmcdev=" __stringify(CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV) "\0" \
-	"mmcpart=2\0" \
-	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait rw\0" \
+	"mmcpart=1\0" \
+	"mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rw\0" \
 	"update_sd_firmware_filename=u-boot.imx\0" \
 	"update_sd_firmware=" \
 		"if test ${ip_dyn} = yes; then " \