diff --git a/bl1/bl1.ld.S b/bl1/bl1.ld.S
index b9554d1..b69065e 100644
--- a/bl1/bl1.ld.S
+++ b/bl1/bl1.ld.S
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2013-2016, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2013-2017, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@
 
     /*
      * The .bss section gets initialised to 0 at runtime.
-     * Its base address must be 16-byte aligned.
+     * Its base address should be 16-byte aligned for better performance of the
+     * zero-initialization code.
      */
     .bss : ALIGN(16) {
         __BSS_START__ = .;
diff --git a/bl1/bl1_fwu.c b/bl1/bl1_fwu.c
index 1cc7daf..f7fae68 100644
--- a/bl1/bl1_fwu.c
+++ b/bl1/bl1_fwu.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015-2016, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-2017, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
 		 */
 		if (image_desc->state == IMAGE_STATE_COPIED) {
 			/* Clear the memory.*/
-			memset((void *)base_addr, 0, total_size);
+			zero_normalmem((void *)base_addr, total_size);
 			flush_dcache_range(base_addr, total_size);
 
 			/* Indicate that image can be copied again*/