diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
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--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
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@@ -8084,6 +8084,18 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       replaces the ``@CLIENT@`` and ``@GATEWAY@`` place holders by the IP and
       the gateway address of the QEMU guest.
 
+   :term:`QB_DEFAULT_BIOS`
+      the `QB_DEFAULT_BIOS` variable can be used to add the ``-bios`` option to
+      the initialization parameters of QEMU. For example, this parameter can be
+      set as follows to emulate U-Boot for the :oecore_path:`qemuarm64
+      <meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf>` machine::
+
+         QB_DEFAULT_BIOS = "u-boot.bin"
+
+      The above example makes the assumption you have built the U-Boot recipe
+      and that the ``u-boot.bin`` file is located in the
+      :term:`DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE` directory.
+
    :term:`QB_DEFAULT_FSTYPE`
 
       The :term:`QB_DEFAULT_FSTYPE` variable controls the default filesystem