diff --git a/drivers/memory/omap-gpmc.c b/drivers/memory/omap-gpmc.c
index 8dc6e3b1c44a..bfe4e8710973 100644
--- a/drivers/memory/omap-gpmc.c
+++ b/drivers/memory/omap-gpmc.c
@@ -94,6 +94,14 @@
 #define GPMC_CS_SIZE		0x30
 #define	GPMC_BCH_SIZE		0x10
 
+/*
+ * The first 1MB of GPMC address space is typically mapped to
+ * the internal ROM. Never allocate the first page, to
+ * facilitate bug detection; even if we didn't boot from ROM.
+ * As GPMC minimum partition size is 16MB we can only start from
+ * there.
+ */
+#define GPMC_MEM_START		0x1000000
 #define GPMC_MEM_END		0x3FFFFFFF
 
 #define GPMC_CHUNK_SHIFT	24		/* 16 MB */
@@ -1297,12 +1305,7 @@ static void gpmc_mem_init(void)
 {
 	int cs;
 
-	/*
-	 * The first 1MB of GPMC address space is typically mapped to
-	 * the internal ROM. Never allocate the first page, to
-	 * facilitate bug detection; even if we didn't boot from ROM.
-	 */
-	gpmc_mem_root.start = SZ_1M;
+	gpmc_mem_root.start = GPMC_MEM_START;
 	gpmc_mem_root.end = GPMC_MEM_END;
 
 	/* Reserve all regions that has been set up by bootloader */
@@ -1966,6 +1969,15 @@ static int gpmc_probe_generic_child(struct platform_device *pdev,
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot remap GPMC CS %d to %pa\n",
 			cs, &res.start);
+		if (res.start < GPMC_MEM_START) {
+			dev_info(&pdev->dev,
+				 "GPMC CS %d start cannot be lesser than 0x%x\n",
+				 cs, GPMC_MEM_START);
+		} else if (res.end > GPMC_MEM_END) {
+			dev_info(&pdev->dev,
+				 "GPMC CS %d end cannot be greater than 0x%x\n",
+				 cs, GPMC_MEM_END);
+		}
 		goto err;
 	}