diff --git a/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig b/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig
index 2d34dd7..06ee4c8 100644
--- a/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig
+++ b/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 CONFIG_MTD=y
 CONFIG_MTD_RAW_NAND=y
 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE=0x20000
+CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ONFI_DETECTION=y
 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT=0x40
 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE=0x800
 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE=0x40