diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 06a370eec6..76e02a81d5 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -1882,6 +1882,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   %D%/packages/patches/rpcbind-CVE-2017-8779.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/rtags-separate-rct.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/racket-chez-scheme-bin-sh.patch		\
+  %D%/packages/patches/racket-rktboot-riscv64-support.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/racket-rktio-bin-sh.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/racket-zuo-bin-sh.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/remake-impure-dirs.patch			\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/racket-rktboot-riscv64-support.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/racket-rktboot-riscv64-support.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f268b1e7f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/racket-rktboot-riscv64-support.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Submitted upstream:
+https://github.com/racket/racket/pull/4703
+
+diff --git a/racket/src/rktboot/machine-def.rkt b/racket/src/rktboot/machine-def.rkt
+index 8ff0688..59ebfc8 100644
+--- a/racket/src/rktboot/machine-def.rkt
++++ b/racket/src/rktboot/machine-def.rkt
+@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
+                                      [(regexp-match? #rx"^t?arm32" target-machine) "arm32"]
+                                      [(regexp-match? #rx"^t?arm64" target-machine) "arm64"]
+                                      [(regexp-match? #rx"^t?ppc32" target-machine) "ppc32"]
++                                     [(regexp-match? #rx"^t?rv64" target-machine) "rv64"]
+                                      [(regexp-match? #rx"^t?pb" target-machine) "pb"]
+                                      [else (error "machine.def: cannot infer architecture")]))]
+                [s (regexp-replace* #rx"[$][(]Mend[)]" s
diff --git a/gnu/packages/racket.scm b/gnu/packages/racket.scm
index dce7cd9587..03abd7cc41 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/racket.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/racket.scm
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ (define %racket-origin
      (base32 "120djvscm2x1nv46is0kzwahd22rcc8gc0ssf12jnj7w290dpmra"))
     (file-name (git-file-name "racket" %racket-version))
     (patches (search-patches "racket-chez-scheme-bin-sh.patch"
+                             "racket-rktboot-riscv64-support.patch"
                              "racket-rktio-bin-sh.patch"
                              "racket-zuo-bin-sh.patch"))
     (modules '((guix build utils)))