diff --git a/doc/README.fdt-control b/doc/README.fdt-control
index 634a10616f..88c04692f7 100644
--- a/doc/README.fdt-control
+++ b/doc/README.fdt-control
@@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ In case you are wondering, OF stands for Open Firmware.
 Tools
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-To use this feature you will need to get the device tree compiler here:
+To use this feature you will need to get the device tree compiler. This is
+provided by U-Boot automatically. If you have a system version of dtc
+(typically in the 'device-tree-compiler' package), it is currently not used.
+
+If you want to build your own dtc, it is kept here:
 
 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git