diff --git a/Documentation/mainboard/emulation/spike-riscv.md b/Documentation/mainboard/emulation/spike-riscv.md
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+# Spike RISC-V emulator
+
+[Spike], also known as riscv-isa-sim, is a commonly used [RISC-V] emulator.
+
+
+## Installation
+
+- Download `riscv-fesvr` and `riscv-isa-sim` from <https://github.com/riscv/>
+- Apply the two patches in <https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-sim/pull/53>,
+  which are necessary in order to have a serial console
+- Compile `riscv-fesvr` and then `riscv-isa-sim`
+
+
+## Building coreboot and running it in Spike
+
+- Configure coreboot and run `make` as usual
+- Run `util/riscv/make-spike-elf.sh build/coreboot.rom build/coreboot.elf` to
+  convert coreboot to an ELF that Spike can load
+- Run `spike -m1024 build/coreboot.elf`
+
+
+[Spike]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-sim
+[RISC-V]: https://riscv.org/
diff --git a/Documentation/mainboard/index.md b/Documentation/mainboard/index.md
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@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ This section contains documentation about coreboot on specific mainboards.
 
 - [CN81XX EVB SFF](cavium/cn8100_sff_evb.md)
 
+## Emulation
+
+The boards in this section are not real mainboards, but emulators.
+
+- [Spike RISC-V emulator](emulation/spike-riscv.md)
+
 ## Foxconn
 
 - [D41S](foxconn/d41s.md)
diff --git a/src/mainboard/emulation/spike-riscv/Kconfig.name b/src/mainboard/emulation/spike-riscv/Kconfig.name
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@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
 config BOARD_EMULATION_SPIKE_RISCV
 	bool "SPIKE riscv"
 	help
-	  To run coreboot in spike:
-	  * run "make" as usual
-	  * util/riscv/make-spike-elf.sh build/coreboot.{rom,elf}
-	  * spike -m1024 build/coreboot.elf