diff --git a/board/timll/devkit8000/devkit8000.c b/board/timll/devkit8000/devkit8000.c
index 533af5a60af391fccc439221d36b9306f6959e72..f50d113347f4003829ed3df746603c7a22d76b2d 100644
--- a/board/timll/devkit8000/devkit8000.c
+++ b/board/timll/devkit8000/devkit8000.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ int board_mmc_init(bd_t *bis)
 }
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_DRIVER_DM9000
+#if defined(CONFIG_DRIVER_DM9000) & !defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD)
 /*
  * Routine: board_eth_init
  * Description: Setting up the Ethernet hardware.
diff --git a/include/configs/devkit8000.h b/include/configs/devkit8000.h
index 710092de36d357bb2d6cf020f1f579d600c29dcf..1d49b864cdacab63d4d704f80e036ea8b54eb7f2 100644
--- a/include/configs/devkit8000.h
+++ b/include/configs/devkit8000.h
@@ -308,4 +308,50 @@
 		                                         CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE - \
 		                                         GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE)
 
+/* SRAM config */
+#define CONFIG_SYS_SRAM_START              0x40200000
+#define CONFIG_SYS_SRAM_SIZE               0x10000
+
+/* Defines for SPL */
+#define CONFIG_SPL
+#define CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
+
+#define CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_LIBDISK_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_POWER_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SUPPORT
+#define CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT		"$(CPUDIR)/omap-common/u-boot-spl.lds"
+
+#define CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE		0x40200000 /*CONFIG_SYS_SRAM_START*/
+#define CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE		0xB400  /* 45 K */
+#define CONFIG_SPL_STACK		LOW_LEVEL_SRAM_STACK
+
+#define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR	0x80000000 /*CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE*/
+#define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE		0x80000
+
+/* NAND boot config */
+#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	0
+#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
+#define CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE	0x200000
+
 #endif /* __CONFIG_H */