diff --git a/doc/README.nand b/doc/README.nand
index b91f198..2bc5b39 100644
--- a/doc/README.nand
+++ b/doc/README.nand
@@ -190,6 +190,24 @@
 	This is used by SoC platforms which do not have built-in ELM
 	hardware engine required for BCH ECC correction.
 
+   CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
+	Indicates that NAND device has 16-bit wide data-bus. In absence of this
+	config, bus-width of NAND device is assumed to be either 8-bit and later
+	determined by reading ONFI params.
+	Above config is useful when NAND device's bus-width information cannot
+	be determined from on-chip ONFI params, like in following scenarios:
+	- SPL boot does not support reading of ONFI parameters. This is done to
+	  keep SPL code foot-print small.
+	- In current U-Boot flow using nand_init(), driver initialization
+	  happens in board_nand_init() which is called before any device probe
+	  (nand_scan_ident + nand_scan_tail), thus device's ONFI parameters are
+	  not available while configuring controller. So a static CONFIG_NAND_xx
+	  is needed to know the device's bus-width in advance.
+	Some drivers using above config are:
+	drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
+	drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
+	drivers/mtd/nand/omap_gpmc.c
+
 
 Platform specific options
 =========================