diff --git a/srcpkgs/rpi-utils/patches/no-overlaycheck.patch b/srcpkgs/rpi-utils/patches/no-overlaycheck.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3e64958e238
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/rpi-utils/patches/no-overlaycheck.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+This program is not very useful as a downstream, it seems to be only intended
+for internal QA. It also has a lot of weird things like hardcoding the prefixed
+cpp to use and putting a text file in /usr/bin.
+
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
+ # List of subsidiary CMakeLists
+ add_subdirectory(dtmerge)
+ add_subdirectory(otpset)
+-add_subdirectory(overlaycheck)
+ add_subdirectory(ovmerge)
+ add_subdirectory(pinctrl)
+ add_subdirectory(raspinfo)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rpi-utils/template b/srcpkgs/rpi-utils/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4ba633ed47a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/rpi-utils/template
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Template file for 'rpi-utils'
+pkgname=rpi-utils
+version=20231221
+revision=1
+_commit=2cc103f4531a005cadaa8a9d09d6c85523c166bb
+archs="armv6l* armv7l* aarch64*"
+build_style=cmake
+makedepends="dtc-devel"
+depends="python3 perl bash"
+short_desc="Collection of utilities for Raspberry Pi"
+maintainer="classabbyamp <void@placeviolette.net>"
+license="BSD-3-Clause"
+homepage="https://github.com/raspberrypi/utils"
+distfiles="https://github.com/raspberrypi/utils/archive/${_commit}.tar.gz"
+checksum=32e128d437052c66c744f24d75b0835a80a98627e33c48a37172a457024d9275
+python_version=3
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense LICENCE
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rpi-utils/update b/srcpkgs/rpi-utils/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0d9505a5537
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/rpi-utils/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+disabled="just following master"