diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-eth-utils/0001-setup-don-t-use-setuptools-markdown.patch b/meta-openembedded/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-eth-utils/0001-setup-don-t-use-setuptools-markdown.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c3c527
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-eth-utils/0001-setup-don-t-use-setuptools-markdown.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From bc86d603e632ce61de4ae7a5d4bcef080cbdb160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
+Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 13:45:06 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] setup: don't use setuptools-markdown
+
+This project is deprecated and irrelevant for the functionality of
+eth-utils. 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 5717d5b..cb62132 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ setup(
+     # *IMPORTANT*: Don't manually change the version here. Use the 'bumpversion' utility.
+     version='1.1.2',
+     description="""Common utility functions for ethereum codebases.""",
+-    long_description_markdown_filename='README.md',
+     author='Piper Merriam',
+     author_email='pipermerriam@gmail.com',
+     url='https://github.com/ethereum/eth_utils',
+@@ -48,7 +47,6 @@ setup(
+         "toolz>0.8.2,<1;implementation_name=='pypy'",
+         "cytoolz>=0.8.2,<1.0.0;implementation_name=='cpython'",
+     ],
+-    setup_requires=['setuptools-markdown'],
+     extras_require=extras_require,
+     py_modules=['eth_utils'],
+     license="MIT",
+-- 
+2.34.1
+