diff --git a/docs/components/fconf/fconf_properties.rst b/docs/components/fconf/fconf_properties.rst
index 20cc758..3479576 100644
--- a/docs/components/fconf/fconf_properties.rst
+++ b/docs/components/fconf/fconf_properties.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@
 
 - load-address [mandatory]
     - value type: <u64>
-    - Physical loading base address of the configuration.
+    - Physical loading base address of the configuration. 
+      If secondary-load-address is also provided (see below), then this is the
+      primary load address.
 
 - max-size [mandatory]
     - value type: <u32>
@@ -30,10 +32,11 @@
     - value type: <u32>
     - Image ID of the configuration.
 
-- ns-load-address [optional]
+- secondary-load-address [optional]
     - value type: <u64>
-    - Physical loading base address of the configuration in the non-secure
-      memory.
-      Only needed by those configuration files which require being loaded
-      in secure memory (at load-address) as well as in non-secure memory
-      e.g. HW_CONFIG
+    - A platform uses this physical address to copy the configuration to
+      another location during the boot-flow.
+
+--------------
+
+*Copyright (c) 2023, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.*
diff --git a/include/lib/fconf/fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.h b/include/lib/fconf/fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.h
index 43f298e..3554673 100644
--- a/include/lib/fconf/fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.h
+++ b/include/lib/fconf/fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2019-2022, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2019-2023, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
  */
@@ -19,12 +19,11 @@
 	uint32_t config_max_size;
 	unsigned int config_id;
 	/*
-	 * Load address in non-secure memory. Only needed by those
-	 * configuration files which require being loaded in secure
-	 * memory (at config_addr) as well as in non-secure memory
+	 * A platform uses this address to copy the configuration
+	 * to another location during the boot-flow.
 	 * - e.g. HW_CONFIG
 	 */
-	uintptr_t ns_config_addr;
+	uintptr_t secondary_config_addr;
 };
 
 unsigned int dyn_cfg_dtb_info_get_index(unsigned int config_id);
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@
 int fconf_populate_dtb_registry(uintptr_t config);
 
 /* Set config information in global DTB array */
-void set_config_info(uintptr_t config_addr, uintptr_t ns_config_addr,
+void set_config_info(uintptr_t config_addr, uintptr_t secondary_config_addr,
 		     uint32_t config_max_size,
 		     unsigned int config_id);
 
diff --git a/lib/fconf/fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.c b/lib/fconf/fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.c
index 351772e..13081b0 100644
--- a/lib/fconf/fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.c
+++ b/lib/fconf/fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2019-2022, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2019-2023, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
  */
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  * This function is used to alloc memory for config information from
  * global pool and set the configuration information.
  */
-void set_config_info(uintptr_t config_addr, uintptr_t ns_config_addr,
+void set_config_info(uintptr_t config_addr, uintptr_t secondary_config_addr,
 		     uint32_t config_max_size,
 		     unsigned int config_id)
 {
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
 	dtb_info = pool_alloc(&dtb_info_pool);
 	dtb_info->config_addr = config_addr;
-	dtb_info->ns_config_addr = ns_config_addr;
+	dtb_info->secondary_config_addr = secondary_config_addr;
 	dtb_info->config_max_size = config_max_size;
 	dtb_info->config_id = config_id;
 }
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
 	fdt_for_each_subnode(child, dtb, node) {
 		uint32_t config_max_size, config_id;
 		uintptr_t config_addr;
-		uintptr_t ns_config_addr = ~0UL;
+		uintptr_t secondary_config_addr = ~0UL;
 		uint64_t val64;
 
 		/* Read configuration dtb information */
@@ -134,14 +134,16 @@
 		VERBOSE("\tmax-size = 0x%x\n", config_max_size);
 		VERBOSE("\tconfig-id = %u\n", config_id);
 
-		rc = fdt_read_uint64(dtb, child, "ns-load-address", &val64);
+		rc = fdt_read_uint64(dtb, child, "secondary-load-address",
+				     &val64);
 		if (rc == 0) {
-			ns_config_addr = (uintptr_t)val64;
-			VERBOSE("\tns-load-address = %lx\n", ns_config_addr);
+			secondary_config_addr = (uintptr_t)val64;
+			VERBOSE("\tsecondary-load-address = %lx\n",
+				secondary_config_addr);
 		}
 
-		set_config_info(config_addr, ns_config_addr, config_max_size,
-				config_id);
+		set_config_info(config_addr, secondary_config_addr,
+				config_max_size, config_id);
 	}
 
 	if ((child < 0) && (child != -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND)) {