diff --git a/tools/binman/README.entries b/tools/binman/README.entries
index 5c6663e2c7..1dbdd0be03 100644
--- a/tools/binman/README.entries
+++ b/tools/binman/README.entries
@@ -1011,6 +1011,15 @@ a device tree to operate on your platform. You can add a u-boot-spl-dtb
 entry after this one, or use a u-boot-spl entry instead (which contains
 both SPL and the device tree).
 
+SPL can access binman symbols at runtime. See:
+
+    'Access to binman entry offsets at run time (symbols)'
+
+in the binman README for more information.
+
+The ELF file 'spl/u-boot-spl' must also be available for this to work, since
+binman uses that to look up symbols to write into the SPL binary.
+
 
 
 Entry: u-boot-spl-with-ucode-ptr: U-Boot SPL with embedded microcode pointer
diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl_nodtb.py b/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl_nodtb.py
index 41d7505491..dbf2f12743 100644
--- a/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl_nodtb.py
+++ b/tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl_nodtb.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # Entry-type module for 'u-boot-spl-nodtb.bin'
 #
 
+from binman import elf
 from binman.entry import Entry
 from binman.etype.blob import Entry_blob
 
@@ -19,9 +20,22 @@ class Entry_u_boot_spl_nodtb(Entry_blob):
     a device tree to operate on your platform. You can add a u-boot-spl-dtb
     entry after this one, or use a u-boot-spl entry instead (which contains
     both SPL and the device tree).
+
+    SPL can access binman symbols at runtime. See:
+
+        'Access to binman entry offsets at run time (symbols)'
+
+    in the binman README for more information.
+
+    The ELF file 'spl/u-boot-spl' must also be available for this to work, since
+    binman uses that to look up symbols to write into the SPL binary.
     """
     def __init__(self, section, etype, node):
         super().__init__(section, etype, node)
+        self.elf_fname = 'spl/u-boot-spl'
 
     def GetDefaultFilename(self):
         return 'spl/u-boot-spl-nodtb.bin'
+
+    def WriteSymbols(self, section):
+        elf.LookupAndWriteSymbols(self.elf_fname, self, section.GetImage())
diff --git a/tools/binman/ftest.py b/tools/binman/ftest.py
index 814e91d42e..e056601b9a 100644
--- a/tools/binman/ftest.py
+++ b/tools/binman/ftest.py
@@ -1337,21 +1337,43 @@ class TestFunctional(unittest.TestCase):
         data = self._DoReadFile('052_u_boot_spl_nodtb.dts')
         self.assertEqual(U_BOOT_SPL_NODTB_DATA, data[:len(U_BOOT_SPL_NODTB_DATA)])
 
-    def testSymbols(self):
-        """Test binman can assign symbols embedded in U-Boot"""
+    def checkSymbols(self, dts, base_data, u_boot_offset):
+        """Check the image contains the expected symbol values
+
+        Args:
+            dts: Device tree file to use for test
+            base_data: Data before and after 'u-boot' section
+            u_boot_offset: Offset of 'u-boot' section in image
+        """
         elf_fname = self.ElfTestFile('u_boot_binman_syms')
         syms = elf.GetSymbols(elf_fname, ['binman', 'image'])
         addr = elf.GetSymbolAddress(elf_fname, '__image_copy_start')
-        self.assertEqual(syms['_binman_u_boot_spl_prop_offset'].address, addr)
+        self.assertEqual(syms['_binman_u_boot_spl_any_prop_offset'].address,
+                         addr)
 
         self._SetupSplElf('u_boot_binman_syms')
-        data = self._DoReadFile('053_symbols.dts')
-        sym_values = struct.pack('<LQLL', 0x00, 0x1c, 0x28, 0x04)
-        expected = (sym_values + U_BOOT_SPL_DATA[20:] +
+        data = self._DoReadFile(dts)
+        # The image should contain the symbols from u_boot_binman_syms.c
+        # Note that image_pos is adjusted by the base address of the image,
+        # which is 0x10 in our test image
+        sym_values = struct.pack('<LQLL', 0x00,
+                                 u_boot_offset + len(U_BOOT_DATA),
+                                 0x10 + u_boot_offset, 0x04)
+        expected = (sym_values + base_data[20:] +
                     tools.GetBytes(0xff, 1) + U_BOOT_DATA + sym_values +
-                    U_BOOT_SPL_DATA[20:])
+                    base_data[20:])
         self.assertEqual(expected, data)
 
+    def testSymbols(self):
+        """Test binman can assign symbols embedded in U-Boot"""
+        self.checkSymbols('053_symbols.dts', U_BOOT_SPL_DATA, 0x18)
+
+    def testSymbolsNoDtb(self):
+        """Test binman can assign symbols embedded in U-Boot SPL"""
+        self.checkSymbols('192_symbols_nodtb.dts',
+                          U_BOOT_SPL_NODTB_DATA + U_BOOT_SPL_DTB_DATA,
+                          0x38)
+
     def testPackUnitAddress(self):
         """Test that we support multiple binaries with the same name"""
         data = self._DoReadFile('054_unit_address.dts')
@@ -4186,18 +4208,7 @@ class TestFunctional(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def testSymbolsSubsection(self):
         """Test binman can assign symbols from a subsection"""
-        elf_fname = self.ElfTestFile('u_boot_binman_syms')
-        syms = elf.GetSymbols(elf_fname, ['binman', 'image'])
-        addr = elf.GetSymbolAddress(elf_fname, '__image_copy_start')
-        self.assertEqual(syms['_binman_u_boot_spl_prop_offset'].address, addr)
-
-        self._SetupSplElf('u_boot_binman_syms')
-        data = self._DoReadFile('187_symbols_sub.dts')
-        sym_values = struct.pack('<LQLL', 0x00, 0x1c, 0x28, 0x04)
-        expected = (sym_values + U_BOOT_SPL_DATA[20:] +
-                    tools.GetBytes(0xff, 1) + U_BOOT_DATA + sym_values +
-                    U_BOOT_SPL_DATA[20:])
-        self.assertEqual(expected, data)
+        self.checkSymbols('187_symbols_sub.dts', U_BOOT_SPL_DATA, 0x18)
 
     def testReadImageEntryArg(self):
         """Test reading an image that would need an entry arg to generate"""
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/053_symbols.dts b/tools/binman/test/053_symbols.dts
index 8af575158f..2965809276 100644
--- a/tools/binman/test/053_symbols.dts
+++ b/tools/binman/test/053_symbols.dts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 		};
 
 		u-boot {
-			offset = <24>;
+			offset = <0x18>;
 		};
 
 		u-boot-spl2 {
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/192_symbols_nodtb.dts b/tools/binman/test/192_symbols_nodtb.dts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c900d6070
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/test/192_symbols_nodtb.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/ {
+	#address-cells = <1>;
+	#size-cells = <1>;
+
+	binman {
+		pad-byte = <0xff>;
+		u-boot-spl-nodtb {
+		};
+		u-boot-spl-dtb {
+		};
+
+		u-boot {
+			offset = <0x38>;
+		};
+
+		u-boot-spl2 {
+			type = "u-boot-spl-nodtb";
+		};
+		u-boot-spl-dtb2 {
+			type = "u-boot-spl-dtb";
+		};
+	};
+};
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/u_boot_binman_syms.c b/tools/binman/test/u_boot_binman_syms.c
index 4520b319f1..37fc339ce8 100644
--- a/tools/binman/test/u_boot_binman_syms.c
+++ b/tools/binman/test/u_boot_binman_syms.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #define CONFIG_BINMAN
 #include <binman_sym.h>
 
-binman_sym_declare(unsigned long, u_boot_spl, offset);
+binman_sym_declare(unsigned long, u_boot_spl_any, offset);
 binman_sym_declare(unsigned long long, u_boot_spl2, offset);
 binman_sym_declare(unsigned long, u_boot_any, image_pos);
 binman_sym_declare(unsigned long, u_boot_any, size);