diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-rlp/0001-setup-don-t-use-setuptools-markdown.patch b/meta-openembedded/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-rlp/0001-setup-don-t-use-setuptools-markdown.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..643d296
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-rlp/0001-setup-don-t-use-setuptools-markdown.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From 5a2db801c6520be296cee9cba0e0e4ffac68430c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
+Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 15:11:19 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] setup: don't use setuptools-markdown
+
+This project is deprecated and irrelevant for the functionality of
+pyrlp. We don't support it in meta-python so just drop it from the
+dependencies.
+
+Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
+---
+ setup.py | 2 --
+ 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 1055fb1..55fca24 100755
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -46,13 +46,11 @@ setup(
+     # *IMPORTANT*: Don't manually change the version here. See README for more.
+     version='3.0.0',
+     description="A package for Recursive Length Prefix encoding and decoding",
+-    long_description_markdown_filename='README.md',
+     author="jnnk",
+     author_email='jnnknnj@gmail.com',
+     url='https://github.com/ethereum/pyrlp',
+     packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests", "tests.*"]),
+     include_package_data=True,
+-    setup_requires=['setuptools-markdown'],
+     install_requires=[
+         "eth-utils>=2.0.0,<3",
+     ],
+-- 
+2.34.1
+