diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common.inc b/poky/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common.inc
index ad043db..a056eae 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common.inc
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-common.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/WebHome"
+DESCRIPTION = "U-Boot, a boot loader for Embedded boards based on PowerPC, \
+ARM, MIPS and several other processors, which can be installed in a boot \
+ROM and used to initialize and test the hardware or to download and run \
+application code."
 SECTION = "bootloaders"
 DEPENDS += "flex-native bison-native"