diff --git a/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/files/arduino-nano-33-ble-storage-partition.patch b/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/files/arduino-nano-33-ble-storage-partition.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4568a41ee1388d61e3e69457e04486749dbeb3f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/files/arduino-nano-33-ble-storage-partition.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+commit 6c9945aafa00c09149e2052a9c2bccad16dd1d8a
+Author: Stefan Schmidt <stefan.schmidt@huawei.com>
+Date: Fri May 7 11:47:44 2021 +0200
+
+ boards/arduino_nano_33_ble: add storage partition at end of flash
+
+ Change default partition table to allow for application which need
+ storage. One use case is running the OpenThread integration which has
+ a dependency on this.
+
+ Upstream-Status: Backported [https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/6c9945aafa00c09149e2052a9c2bccad16dd1d8a]
+
+ Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan.schmidt@huawei.com>
+ Signed-off-by: Naveen Saini <naveen.kumar.saini@intel.com>
+
+diff --git a/boards/arm/arduino_nano_33_ble/arduino_nano_33_ble.dts b/boards/arm/arduino_nano_33_ble/arduino_nano_33_ble.dts
+index d09b66ec43..d11d800eb5 100644
+--- a/boards/arm/arduino_nano_33_ble/arduino_nano_33_ble.dts
++++ b/boards/arm/arduino_nano_33_ble/arduino_nano_33_ble.dts
+@@ -44,15 +44,27 @@
+
+ boot_partition: partition@0 {
+ label = "sam-ba";
+- reg = <0x0 0x10000>;
++ reg = <0x00000000 0x00010000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ code_partition: partition@10000 {
+ label = "code";
+- reg = <0x10000 0xf0000>;
++ reg = <0x00010000 0x000e8000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
++
++ /*
++ * The flash starting at 0x000f8000 and ending at
++ * 0x000fffff is reserved for use by the application.
++ *
++ * Storage partition will be used by FCB/LittleFS/NVS
++ * if enabled.
++ */
++ storage_partition: partition@f8000 {
++ label = "storage";
++ reg = <0x000f8000 0x00008000>;
++ };
+ };
+ };
+
diff --git a/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/zephyr-kernel-src-2.6.0.inc b/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/zephyr-kernel-src-2.6.0.inc
index 949492f96e31668ed69b413c5b95786c6c995373..091c0576744c31972a406153046ac1348a019f8c 100644
--- a/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/zephyr-kernel-src-2.6.0.inc
+++ b/recipes-kernel/zephyr-kernel/zephyr-kernel-src-2.6.0.inc
@@ -14,4 +14,5 @@ PV = "2.6.0+git${SRCPV}"
SRC_URI_append = " file://0001-cmake-add-yocto-toolchain.patch \
file://0001-x86-fix-efi-binary-generation-issue-in-cross-compila.patch \
+ file://arduino-nano-33-ble-storage-partition.patch \
"