diff --git a/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/Kconfig b/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/Kconfig
index 75b2e5dc3a4d9..59d28920f5808 100644
--- a/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/Kconfig
@@ -391,6 +391,9 @@ config MPFS_EMMCSD
 	select ARCH_HAVE_SDIO
 	select SDIO_BLOCKSETUP
 	select SDIO_DMA
+	select FAT_DMAMEMORY
+	select FAT_FORCE_INDIRECT
+	select GRAN
 	default n
 	---help---
 		Selects the MPFS eMMCSD driver.
diff --git a/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/Make.defs b/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/Make.defs
index 2692647db7a59..925e4467619a8 100644
--- a/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/Make.defs
+++ b/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/Make.defs
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_MPFS_EMMCSD),y)
 CHIP_CSRCS += mpfs_emmcsd.c
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_FAT_DMAMEMORY),y)
+CHIP_CSRCS += mpfs_dma_alloc.c
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_MPFS_COREMMC),y)
 CHIP_CSRCS += mpfs_coremmc.c
 endif
diff --git a/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/mpfs_dma_alloc.c b/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/mpfs_dma_alloc.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fdf364bb3e312
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/mpfs_dma_alloc.c
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/****************************************************************************
+ * arch/risc-v/src/mpfs/mpfs_dma_alloc.c
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.  The
+ * ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+ * License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.  See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ *
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+/****************************************************************************
+ * Included Files
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+#include <nuttx/config.h>
+#include <syslog.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <nuttx/mm/gran.h>
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_FAT_DMAMEMORY) && defined(CONFIG_GRAN)
+
+/****************************************************************************
+ * Pre-processor Definitions
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+#define BOARD_DMA_ALLOC_POOL_SIZE (8*512)
+
+/****************************************************************************
+ * Private Data
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+static GRAN_HANDLE dma_allocator;
+
+/* The DMA heap size constrains the total number of things that can be
+ * ready to do DMA at a time.
+ *
+ * For example, FAT DMA depends on one sector-sized buffer per filesystem
+ * plus one sector-sized buffer per file.
+ *
+ * We use a fundamental alignment / granule size of 64B; it fulfills the
+ * requirement for any DMA engine.
+ */
+
+static uint8_t g_dma_heap[BOARD_DMA_ALLOC_POOL_SIZE] aligned_data(64);
+
+/****************************************************************************
+ * Public Functions
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+/****************************************************************************
+ * Name: mpfs_dma_alloc
+ *
+ * Description:
+ *   All boards may optionally provide this API to instantiate a pool of
+ *   memory for uses with FAST FS DMA operations.
+ *
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+int mpfs_dma_alloc_init(void)
+{
+  /* Allocate 128B granules with 64B alignment */
+
+  dma_allocator = gran_initialize(g_dma_heap, sizeof(g_dma_heap), 7, 6);
+
+  if (dma_allocator == NULL)
+    {
+      return -ENOMEM;
+    }
+
+  return OK;
+}
+
+void *fat_dma_alloc(size_t size)
+{
+  return gran_alloc(dma_allocator, size);
+}
+
+void fat_dma_free(void *memory, size_t size)
+{
+  gran_free(dma_allocator, memory, size);
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_FAT_DMAMEMORY && CONFIG_GRAN */