diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_dtb_with_ucode.py b/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_dtb_with_ucode.py
index 732d10a..fc02c67 100644
--- a/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_dtb_with_ucode.py
+++ b/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_dtb_with_ucode.py
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@
         Entry_blob.ObtainContents(self)
 
         # If the image does not need microcode, there is nothing to do
-        ucode_dest_entry = self.image.FindEntryType('u-boot-with-ucode-ptr')
+        ucode_dest_entry = self.image.FindEntryType('u-boot-spl-with-ucode-ptr')
+        if not ucode_dest_entry or not ucode_dest_entry.target_pos:
+            ucode_dest_entry = self.image.FindEntryType('u-boot-with-ucode-ptr')
         if not ucode_dest_entry or not ucode_dest_entry.target_pos:
             return True
 
diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl_bss_pad.py b/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl_bss_pad.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c005f28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl_bss_pad.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2016 Google, Inc
+# Written by Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:      GPL-2.0+
+#
+# Entry-type module for BSS padding for spl/u-boot-spl.bin. This padding
+# can be added after the SPL binary to ensure that anything concatenated
+# to it will appear to SPL to be at the end of BSS rather than the start.
+#
+
+import command
+from entry import Entry
+from blob import Entry_blob
+import tools
+
+class Entry_u_boot_spl_bss_pad(Entry_blob):
+    def __init__(self, image, etype, node):
+        Entry_blob.__init__(self, image, etype, node)
+
+    def ObtainContents(self):
+        fname = tools.GetInputFilename('spl/u-boot-spl')
+        args = [['nm', fname], ['grep', '__bss_size']]
+        out = command.RunPipe(args, capture=True).stdout.splitlines()
+        bss_size = int(out[0].split()[0], 16)
+        self.data = chr(0) * bss_size
+        self.contents_size = bss_size
diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl_with_ucode_ptr.py b/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl_with_ucode_ptr.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..764c282
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl_with_ucode_ptr.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2016 Google, Inc
+# Written by Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:      GPL-2.0+
+#
+# Entry-type module for an SPL binary with an embedded microcode pointer
+#
+
+import struct
+
+import command
+from entry import Entry
+from blob import Entry_blob
+from u_boot_with_ucode_ptr import Entry_u_boot_with_ucode_ptr
+import tools
+
+class Entry_u_boot_spl_with_ucode_ptr(Entry_u_boot_with_ucode_ptr):
+    """U-Boot SPL with embedded microcode pointer
+
+    See Entry_u_boot_ucode for full details of the entries involved in this
+    process.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, image, etype, node):
+        Entry_blob.__init__(self, image, etype, node)
+        self.elf_fname = 'spl/u-boot-spl'
+
+    def GetDefaultFilename(self):
+        return 'spl/u-boot-spl.bin'
diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/x86_start16_spl.py b/tools/binman/etype/x86_start16_spl.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3679a43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/etype/x86_start16_spl.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2016 Google, Inc
+# Written by Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:      GPL-2.0+
+#
+# Entry-type module for the 16-bit x86 start-up code for U-Boot SPL
+#
+
+from entry import Entry
+from blob import Entry_blob
+
+class Entry_x86_start16_spl(Entry_blob):
+    def __init__(self, image, etype, node):
+        Entry_blob.__init__(self, image, etype, node)
+
+    def GetDefaultFilename(self):
+        return 'spl/u-boot-x86-16bit-spl.bin'
diff --git a/tools/binman/func_test.py b/tools/binman/func_test.py
index 8dd118b..cb8bd31 100644
--- a/tools/binman/func_test.py
+++ b/tools/binman/func_test.py
@@ -714,7 +714,95 @@
             self.assertEqual('nodtb with microcode' + pos_and_size +
                             ' somewhere in here', first)
 
+    def testPackUbootSingleMicrocode(self):
+        """Test that x86 microcode can be handled correctly with fdt_normal.
+        """
+        self._RunPackUbootSingleMicrocode(False)
+
+    def testPackUbootSingleMicrocodeFallback(self):
+        """Test that x86 microcode can be handled correctly with fdt_fallback.
+
+        This only supports collating the microcode.
+        """
+        try:
+            old_val = fdt_select.UseFallback(True)
+            self._RunPackUbootSingleMicrocode(True)
+        finally:
+            fdt_select.UseFallback(old_val)
+
     def testUBootImg(self):
         """Test that u-boot.img can be put in a file"""
         data = self._DoReadFile('36_u_boot_img.dts')
         self.assertEqual(U_BOOT_IMG_DATA, data)
+
+    def testNoMicrocode(self):
+        """Test that a missing microcode region is detected"""
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as e:
+            self._DoReadFile('37_x86_no_ucode.dts', True)
+        self.assertIn("Node '/binman/u-boot-dtb-with-ucode': No /microcode "
+                      "node found in ", str(e.exception))
+
+    def testMicrocodeWithoutNode(self):
+        """Test that a missing u-boot-dtb-with-ucode node is detected"""
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as e:
+            self._DoReadFile('38_x86_ucode_missing_node.dts', True)
+        self.assertIn("Node '/binman/u-boot-with-ucode-ptr': Cannot find "
+                "microcode region u-boot-dtb-with-ucode", str(e.exception))
+
+    def testMicrocodeWithoutNode2(self):
+        """Test that a missing u-boot-ucode node is detected"""
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as e:
+            self._DoReadFile('39_x86_ucode_missing_node2.dts', True)
+        self.assertIn("Node '/binman/u-boot-with-ucode-ptr': Cannot find "
+            "microcode region u-boot-ucode", str(e.exception))
+
+    def testMicrocodeWithoutPtrInElf(self):
+        """Test that a U-Boot binary without the microcode symbol is detected"""
+        # ELF file without a '_dt_ucode_base_size' symbol
+        if not fdt_select.have_libfdt:
+            return
+        try:
+            with open(self.TestFile('u_boot_no_ucode_ptr')) as fd:
+                TestFunctional._MakeInputFile('u-boot', fd.read())
+
+            with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as e:
+                self._RunPackUbootSingleMicrocode(False)
+            self.assertIn("Node '/binman/u-boot-with-ucode-ptr': Cannot locate "
+                    "_dt_ucode_base_size symbol in u-boot", str(e.exception))
+
+        finally:
+            # Put the original file back
+            with open(self.TestFile('u_boot_ucode_ptr')) as fd:
+                TestFunctional._MakeInputFile('u-boot', fd.read())
+
+    def testMicrocodeNotInImage(self):
+        """Test that microcode must be placed within the image"""
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as e:
+            self._DoReadFile('40_x86_ucode_not_in_image.dts', True)
+        self.assertIn("Node '/binman/u-boot-with-ucode-ptr': Microcode "
+                "pointer _dt_ucode_base_size at fffffe14 is outside the "
+                "image ranging from 00000000 to 0000002e", str(e.exception))
+
+    def testWithoutMicrocode(self):
+        """Test that we can cope with an image without microcode (e.g. qemu)"""
+        with open(self.TestFile('u_boot_no_ucode_ptr')) as fd:
+            TestFunctional._MakeInputFile('u-boot', fd.read())
+        data, dtb = self._DoReadFileDtb('44_x86_optional_ucode.dts', True)
+
+        # Now check the device tree has no microcode
+        self.assertEqual(U_BOOT_NODTB_DATA, data[:len(U_BOOT_NODTB_DATA)])
+        second = data[len(U_BOOT_NODTB_DATA):]
+
+        fdt_len = self.GetFdtLen(second)
+        self.assertEqual(dtb, second[:fdt_len])
+
+        used_len = len(U_BOOT_NODTB_DATA) + fdt_len
+        third = data[used_len:]
+        self.assertEqual(chr(0) * (0x200 - used_len), third)
+
+    def testUnknownPosSize(self):
+        """Test that microcode must be placed within the image"""
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as e:
+            self._DoReadFile('41_unknown_pos_size.dts', True)
+        self.assertIn("Image '/binman': Unable to set pos/size for unknown "
+                "entry 'invalid-entry'", str(e.exception))
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/37_x86_no_ucode.dts b/tools/binman/test/37_x86_no_ucode.dts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e12156
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/test/37_x86_no_ucode.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/ {
+	#address-cells = <1>;
+	#size-cells = <1>;
+
+	binman {
+		sort-by-pos;
+		end-at-4gb;
+		size = <0x200>;
+		u-boot-with-ucode-ptr {
+		};
+
+		u-boot-dtb-with-ucode {
+		};
+
+		u-boot-ucode {
+		};
+	};
+};
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/38_x86_ucode_missing_node.dts b/tools/binman/test/38_x86_ucode_missing_node.dts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6cf0d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/test/38_x86_ucode_missing_node.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/ {
+	#address-cells = <1>;
+	#size-cells = <1>;
+
+	binman {
+		sort-by-pos;
+		end-at-4gb;
+		size = <0x200>;
+		u-boot-with-ucode-ptr {
+		};
+
+		u-boot-ucode {
+		};
+	};
+
+	microcode {
+		update@0 {
+			data = <0x12345678 0x12345679>;
+		};
+		update@1 {
+			data = <0xabcd0000 0x78235609>;
+		};
+	};
+};
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/39_x86_ucode_missing_node2.dts b/tools/binman/test/39_x86_ucode_missing_node2.dts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7e26c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/test/39_x86_ucode_missing_node2.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/ {
+	#address-cells = <1>;
+	#size-cells = <1>;
+
+	binman {
+		sort-by-pos;
+		end-at-4gb;
+		size = <0x200>;
+		u-boot-with-ucode-ptr {
+		};
+	};
+
+	microcode {
+		update@0 {
+			data = <0x12345678 0x12345679>;
+		};
+		update@1 {
+			data = <0xabcd0000 0x78235609>;
+		};
+	};
+};
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/40_x86_ucode_not_in_image.dts b/tools/binman/test/40_x86_ucode_not_in_image.dts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67d17d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/test/40_x86_ucode_not_in_image.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/ {
+	#address-cells = <1>;
+	#size-cells = <1>;
+
+	binman {
+		sort-by-pos;
+		size = <0x200>;
+		u-boot-with-ucode-ptr {
+		};
+
+		u-boot-dtb-with-ucode {
+		};
+
+		u-boot-ucode {
+		};
+	};
+
+	microcode {
+		update@0 {
+			data = <0x12345678 0x12345679>;
+		};
+		update@1 {
+			data = <0xabcd0000 0x78235609>;
+		};
+	};
+};
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/41_unknown_pos_size.dts b/tools/binman/test/41_unknown_pos_size.dts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a8e7d8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/test/41_unknown_pos_size.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/ {
+	#address-cells = <1>;
+	#size-cells = <1>;
+
+	binman {
+		_testing {
+		};
+        };
+};
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/44_x86_optional_ucode.dts b/tools/binman/test/44_x86_optional_ucode.dts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..abe1322
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/test/44_x86_optional_ucode.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/ {
+	#address-cells = <1>;
+	#size-cells = <1>;
+
+	binman {
+		sort-by-pos;
+		end-at-4gb;
+		size = <0x200>;
+		u-boot-with-ucode-ptr {
+			optional-ucode;
+		};
+
+		u-boot-dtb-with-ucode {
+		};
+
+		u-boot-ucode {
+		};
+	};
+
+	microcode {
+		update@0 {
+			data = <0x12345678 0x12345679>;
+		};
+		update@1 {
+			data = <0xabcd0000 0x78235609>;
+		};
+	};
+};
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/u_boot_no_ucode_ptr b/tools/binman/test/u_boot_no_ucode_ptr
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f72462f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/test/u_boot_no_ucode_ptr
Binary files differ
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/u_boot_no_ucode_ptr.c b/tools/binman/test/u_boot_no_ucode_ptr.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a17bb4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/test/u_boot_no_ucode_ptr.c
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 Google, Inc
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:     GPL-2.0+
+ *
+ * Simple program to create a bad _dt_ucode_base_size symbol to create an
+ * error when it is used. This is used by binman tests.
+ *
+ * Build with:
+ * cc -march=i386 -m32 -o u_boot_no_ucode_ptr -T u_boot_ucode_ptr.lds \
+	-nostdlib u_boot_no_ucode_ptr.c
+ */
+
+static unsigned long not__dt_ucode_base_size[2]
+		__attribute__((section(".ucode"))) = {1, 2};