diff --git a/board/ti/am3517crane/am3517crane.c b/board/ti/am3517crane/am3517crane.c
index cd5683d..436645a 100644
--- a/board/ti/am3517crane/am3517crane.c
+++ b/board/ti/am3517crane/am3517crane.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ void set_muxconf_regs(void)
 	MUX_AM3517CRANE();
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_MMC
+#if defined(CONFIG_GENERIC_MMC) && !defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD)
 int board_mmc_init(bd_t *bis)
 {
 	omap_mmc_init(0);
diff --git a/board/ti/am3517crane/config.mk b/board/ti/am3517crane/config.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index c6a18b5..0000000
--- a/board/ti/am3517crane/config.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Author: Srinath R <srinath@mistralsolutions.com>
-#
-# Based on logicpd/am3517evm/config.mk
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2011 Mistral Solutions Pvt Ltd
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-#
-# Physical Address:
-# 8000'0000 (bank0)
-# A000/0000 (bank1)
-# Linux-Kernel is expected to be at 8000'8000, entry 8000'8000
-# (mem base + reserved)
-
-# For use with external or internal boots.
-CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE = 0x80008000
diff --git a/include/configs/am3517_crane.h b/include/configs/am3517_crane.h
index 8842a18..80c7176 100644
--- a/include/configs/am3517_crane.h
+++ b/include/configs/am3517_crane.h
@@ -330,4 +330,59 @@
 #define CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR		(CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR + \
 					 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE - \
 					 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE)
+
+/* Defines for SPL */
+#define CONFIG_SPL
+#define CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
+#define CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE		0x40200800
+#define CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE		(45 * 1024)
+#define CONFIG_SPL_STACK		LOW_LEVEL_SRAM_STACK
+
+#define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR	0x80000000
+#define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE		0x80000		/* 512 KB */
+
+#define CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR	0x300 /* address 0x60000 */
+#define CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_MAX_SIZE_SECTORS	0x200 /* 256 KB */
+#define CONFIG_SYS_MMC_SD_FAT_BOOT_PARTITION	1
+#define CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME	"u-boot.img"
+
+#define CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_LIBDISK_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_POWER_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT		"$(CPUDIR)/omap-common/u-boot-spl.lds"
+
+/* NAND boot config */
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT	64
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE	2048
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE		64
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE	(128*1024)
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS	NAND_LARGE_BADBLOCK_POS
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS		{2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,\
+						10, 11, 12, 13}
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE		512
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES	3
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSTEPS	(CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE / \
+						CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE)
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCTOTAL	(CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES * \
+						CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSTEPS)
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START	CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS	0x80000
+
+/*
+ * 1MB into the SDRAM to allow for SPL's bss at the beginning of SDRAM
+ * 64 bytes before this address should be set aside for u-boot.img's
+ * header. That is 0x800FFFC0--0x80100000 should not be used for any
+ * other needs.
+ */
+#define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE		0x80100000
+#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START	0x80208000
+#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE	0x100000
+
 #endif /* __CONFIG_H */
