diff --git a/bsps/include/dev/spi/xqspipsu-flash-helper.h b/bsps/include/dev/spi/xqspipsu-flash-helper.h
index 828a56dad5..8dffa9e896 100644
--- a/bsps/include/dev/spi/xqspipsu-flash-helper.h
+++ b/bsps/include/dev/spi/xqspipsu-flash-helper.h
@@ -3,6 +3,18 @@
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 ******************************************************************************/
 
+/**
+ * @file xqspipsu_flash_helper.h
+ *
+ * This file contains flash helper function prototypes for the QSPIPSU driver.
+ * It consists of modified functions from Xilinx's flash example in
+ * examples/xqspipsu_generic_flash_interrupt_example.c of the qspipsu driver.
+ *
+ * Since the comment blocks and general form of the functions has not changed,
+ * the Xilinx copyright above is maintained, but this file is not part of the
+ * upstream embeddedsw distribution.
+ */
+
 #ifndef LIBBSP_DEV_SPI_XQSPIPSU_HELPER_H
 #define LIBBSP_DEV_SPI_XQSPIPSU_HELPER_H
 
diff --git a/bsps/shared/dev/spi/xqspipsu-flash-helper.c b/bsps/shared/dev/spi/xqspipsu-flash-helper.c
index 15bfe6dba9..a91358c5f5 100644
--- a/bsps/shared/dev/spi/xqspipsu-flash-helper.c
+++ b/bsps/shared/dev/spi/xqspipsu-flash-helper.c
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
  * consists of modified functions from Xilinx's flash example in
  * examples/xqspipsu_generic_flash_interrupt_example.c of the qspipsu driver.
  *
+ * Since the comment blocks and general form of the functions has not changed,
+ * the Xilinx copyright above is maintained, but this file is not part of the
+ * upstream embeddedsw distribution.
  */
 
 #include "xqspipsu_flash_config.h"