diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-ethos-u-vela.yml b/.github/workflows/build-ethos-u-vela.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1f7c36891ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-ethos-u-vela.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 The RISE Project
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+---
+# This workflow is based on upstream's [tool.cibuildwheel] config:
+# https://gitlab.arm.com/artificial-intelligence/ethos-u/ethos-u-vela/-/blob/5.2.0/pyproject.toml
+name: Build ethos-u-vela wheels (riscv64)
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'Version glob to (re)build; empty builds every version of docs/packages/ethos-u-vela.yaml not released yet'
+        required: false
+        default: ''
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-ethos-u-vela.yml'
+      - 'docs/packages/ethos-u-vela.yaml'
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-ethos-u-vela.yml'
+      - 'docs/packages/ethos-u-vela.yaml'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+env:
+  MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_39_riscv64
+
+jobs:
+  setup:
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_setup.yml
+    with:
+      package: ethos-u-vela
+      version: ${{ inputs.version }}
+
+  build_wheels:
+    needs: [setup]
+    if: needs.setup.outputs.versions != '[]'
+    name: Build ethos-u-vela ${{ matrix.version }} ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
+    timeout-minutes: 240
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.versions) }}
+        # No cp314t: neither mlw_codec nor regor declares free-threading support.
+        python: ["cp312", "cp313", "cp314"]
+
+    env:
+      ETHOS_U_VELA_VERSION: ${{ matrix.version }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout ethos-u-vela ${{ env.ETHOS_U_VELA_VERSION }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          shopt -s dotglob
+          rm -rf ./*
+          git clone -q --depth 1 --branch "${ETHOS_U_VELA_VERSION}" https://gitlab.arm.com/artificial-intelligence/ethos-u/ethos-u-vela.git .
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          path: python-wheels
+          sparse-checkout: patches/ethos-u-vela
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Patch ethos-u-vela source
+        run: |
+          git apply -v python-wheels/patches/ethos-u-vela/${{ env.ETHOS_U_VELA_VERSION }}/*.patch
+          rm -rf python-wheels
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@1828c10ab37f080699c7b81cea34097c684a7074  # v4.2.0
+        with:
+          output-dir: wheelhouse
+          only: ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+        env:
+          CIBW_MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: ${{ env.MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE }}
+          # setup.py only passes -j to CMake for `build_ext --parallel`, which pip never sets.
+          CIBW_ENVIRONMENT: >-
+            SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION=${{ env.ETHOS_U_VELA_VERSION }}
+            CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL=$(nproc)
+            PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://pypi.riseproject.dev/simple/
+
+      - name: Check wheel contents
+        run: |
+          python3 - wheelhouse/*.whl <<'EOF'
+          import sys, zipfile
+          assert len(sys.argv) == 2, sys.argv
+          names = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[1]).namelist()
+          for ext in ("ethosu/mlw_codec.", "ethosu/regor."):
+              assert any(n.startswith(ext) and n.endswith(".so") for n in names), ext
+          licences = {n.split(".dist-info/licenses/", 1)[1] for n in names if ".dist-info/licenses/" in n and not n.endswith("/")}
+          assert licences == {"LICENSE.txt"} | {f"ethosu/regor/dependencies/thirdparty/{d}/LICENSE" for d in ("flatbuffers", "fmt", "gemmlowp", "pybind11")}, licences
+          EOF
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: ethos-u-vela-${{ env.ETHOS_U_VELA_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+          path: wheelhouse/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  publish:
+    name: Publish ethos-u-vela ${{ matrix.version }}
+    needs: [setup, build_wheels]
+    if: needs.setup.outputs.versions != '[]'
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.versions) }}
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_publish-wheel.yml
+    secrets:
+      app-private-key: ${{ secrets.RISEPROJECT_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+    with:
+      artifact-pattern: ethos-u-vela-${{ matrix.version }}-*-manylinux_riscv64
diff --git a/docs/packages/ethos-u-vela.yaml b/docs/packages/ethos-u-vela.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a7889faabb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/packages/ethos-u-vela.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+package-name: ethos-u-vela
+source-code: https://gitlab.arm.com/artificial-intelligence/ethos-u/ethos-u-vela
+license: Apache-2.0
+versions:
+- version: 5.2.0
+  patched: true
diff --git a/patches/ethos-u-vela/5.2.0/0001-pyproject-ship-licence-files-of-vendored-C-libraries.patch b/patches/ethos-u-vela/5.2.0/0001-pyproject-ship-licence-files-of-vendored-C-libraries.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..13d55568c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/ethos-u-vela/5.2.0/0001-pyproject-ship-licence-files-of-vendored-C-libraries.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ludovic Henry <git@ludovic.dev>
+Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] pyproject: ship licence files of vendored C++ libraries
+
+The regor extension module compiles in the vendored FlatBuffers, fmt,
+gemmlowp and pybind11 headers from ethosu/regor/dependencies/thirdparty
+(see THIRDPARTY.md), but the wheel only carries Vela's own LICENSE.txt.
+Their Apache-2.0, MIT and BSD-3-Clause terms require the notices to
+travel with the binary, so list them in license-files. Catch2 is only
+linked into the C++ unit tests and is left out.
+
+Upstream-Status: To upstream [opening a merge request on gitlab.arm.com needs an Arm GitLab account]
+---
+ pyproject.toml | 8 +++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
+--- a/pyproject.toml
++++ b/pyproject.toml
+@@ -20,7 +20,13 @@
+ requires-python = ">=3.10"
+ authors = [{name = "Arm Ltd", email = "mlg-vela@arm.com"}]
+ license = "Apache-2.0"
+-license-files = ["LICENSE.txt"]
++license-files = [
++    "LICENSE.txt",
++    "ethosu/regor/dependencies/thirdparty/flatbuffers/LICENSE",
++    "ethosu/regor/dependencies/thirdparty/fmt/LICENSE",
++    "ethosu/regor/dependencies/thirdparty/gemmlowp/LICENSE",
++    "ethosu/regor/dependencies/thirdparty/pybind11/LICENSE",
++]
+ classifiers = [
+     "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+     "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+--
+2.43.0
+