A patch I found on kernel.org coming out for the 4.14 [edit] 4.15 kernel, missing the LTS [/edit] is addressing an issue where Amlogic changed the reserved memory mapping for the Arm trusted firmware.  Unfortunately this wasn't reflected in the kernel:   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2017-October/004860.html   This addresses the "External Abort" error, and in my testing so far appears to have cleared it up.   I had been able to recreate this fai