diff --git a/board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0001-Revert-serial-sh-sci-increase-RX-FIFO-trigger-defaul.patch b/board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches/linux/0001-Revert-serial-sh-sci-increase-RX-FIFO-trigger-defaul.patch
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@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+From aaaced6d2d6f796ed77e4725ed7ccbedb189c180 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:43:38 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Revert: serial: sh-sci: increase RX FIFO trigger defaults for
+ (H)SCIF
+MIME-Version: 1.0
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+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+This reverts commit 18e8cf159177100e69d528293f8cf6875c0b1bca (kernel)
+
+The last Qemu kernel update [1] introduced a regresion in sh4 SCIF
+serial device. Some keyboard presses are very slow to be taken into
+account, perhaps not even taken into account at all. This would
+explain why our test infrastructure doesn’t manage to login as root
+[2][3][4].
+
+git bisect reported a kernel patch from 4.11, increasing RX FIFO
+trigger defaults value for sh-sci (H)SCIF. The kernel patch itself
+looks good but the Qemu emulation is not ready to handle this new
+setting.
+
+From Qemu (2.12.0): target/sh4/README.sh4
+"Configuration of the second serial port (SCIF) is supported. FIFO
+handling infrastructure has been started but is not completed yet."
+
+In order to be able to test sh4 architecture with newer kernel,
+revert to the old behaviour.
+
+[1] https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=03fb00f2175cdb4565e26fcb9b3da1c1059de1bd
+[2] https://gitlab.com/free-electrons/toolchains-builder/-/jobs/72006425
+[3] https://gitlab.com/free-electrons/toolchains-builder/-/jobs/72006427
+[4] https://gitlab.com/free-electrons/toolchains-builder/-/jobs/72006426
+
+Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
+Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
+---
+ drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 7 ++-----
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
+index ab757546c6db..138e4dec44fb 100644
+--- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
++++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
+@@ -2793,11 +2793,8 @@ static int sci_init_single(struct platform_device *dev,
+ 		sci_port->rx_trigger = 32;
+ 		break;
+ 	case PORT_SCIF:
+-		if (p->regtype == SCIx_SH7705_SCIF_REGTYPE)
+-			/* RX triggering not implemented for this IP */
+-			sci_port->rx_trigger = 1;
+-		else
+-			sci_port->rx_trigger = 8;
++		/* RX triggering not implemented in Qemu emulation */
++		sci_port->rx_trigger = 1;
+ 		break;
+ 	default:
+ 		sci_port->rx_trigger = 1;
+-- 
+2.14.4
+
diff --git a/configs/qemu_sh4eb_r2d_defconfig b/configs/qemu_sh4eb_r2d_defconfig
index 79e8c38e8a..e7dbd46a2b 100644
--- a/configs/qemu_sh4eb_r2d_defconfig
+++ b/configs/qemu_sh4eb_r2d_defconfig
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ BR2_sh=y
 BR2_sh4eb=y
 
 # System
+BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR="board/qemu/sh4eb-r2d/patches"
 BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="ttySC1"
 
 # Filesystem