diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c
index e989f75c09b7..bc35dad53b07 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_backend.c
@@ -798,18 +798,21 @@ static int sun4i_backend_bind(struct device *dev, struct device *master,
 	dev_set_drvdata(dev, backend);
 	spin_lock_init(&backend->frontend_lock);
 
-	if (of_property_present(dev->of_node, "interconnects")) {
-		/*
-		 * This assume we have the same DMA constraints for all our the
-		 * devices in our pipeline (all the backends, but also the
-		 * frontends). This sounds bad, but it has always been the case
-		 * for us, and DRM doesn't do per-device allocation either, so
-		 * we would need to fix DRM first...
-		 */
-		ret = of_dma_configure(drm->dev, dev->of_node, true);
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
-	}
+	/*
+	 * This assume we have the same DMA constraints for all our the
+	 * devices in our pipeline (all the backends, but also the
+	 * frontends). This sounds bad, but it has always been the case
+	 * for us, and DRM doesn't do per-device allocation either, so
+	 * we would need to fix DRM first...
+	 *
+	 * Always use the first bound backend as the DMA device. While
+	 * our device trees always have all backends enabled, some in
+	 * the wild may actually have the first one disabled. If both
+	 * are enabled, the order in which they are bound is guaranteed
+	 * since the driver adds components in order.
+	 */
+	if (drm_dev_dma_dev(drm) == drm->dev)
+		drm_dev_set_dma_dev(drm, dev);
 
 	backend->engine.node = dev->of_node;
 	backend->engine.ops = &sun4i_backend_engine_ops;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_mixer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_mixer.c
index 02acc7cbdb97..4071ab38b4ae 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_mixer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun8i_mixer.c
@@ -536,18 +536,21 @@ static int sun8i_mixer_bind(struct device *dev, struct device *master,
 	mixer->engine.ops = &sun8i_engine_ops;
 	mixer->engine.node = dev->of_node;
 
-	if (of_property_present(dev->of_node, "iommus")) {
-		/*
-		 * This assume we have the same DMA constraints for
-		 * all our the mixers in our pipeline. This sounds
-		 * bad, but it has always been the case for us, and
-		 * DRM doesn't do per-device allocation either, so we
-		 * would need to fix DRM first...
-		 */
-		ret = of_dma_configure(drm->dev, dev->of_node, true);
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
-	}
+	/*
+	 * This assume we have the same DMA constraints for all our the
+	 * devices in our pipeline (all the backends, but also the
+	 * frontends). This sounds bad, but it has always been the case
+	 * for us, and DRM doesn't do per-device allocation either, so
+	 * we would need to fix DRM first...
+	 *
+	 * Always use the first bound backend as the DMA device. While
+	 * our device trees always have all backends enabled, some in
+	 * the wild may actually have the first one disabled. If both
+	 * are enabled, the order in which they are bound is guaranteed
+	 * since the driver adds components in order.
+	 */
+	if (drm_dev_dma_dev(drm) == drm->dev)
+		drm_dev_set_dma_dev(drm, dev);
 
 	/*
 	 * While this function can fail, we shouldn't do anything