diff --git a/embassy-executor/Cargo.toml b/embassy-executor/Cargo.toml
index 409df0d75..431165cee 100644
--- a/embassy-executor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/embassy-executor/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ critical-section = "1.1"
 
 document-features = "0.2.7"
 
-# needed for riscv and avr
-# remove when https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/114499 lands on stable (on 1.76)
+# needed for AVR
 portable-atomic = { version = "1.5", optional = true }
 
 # arch-cortex-m dependencies
@@ -78,7 +77,7 @@ arch-std = ["_arch", "critical-section/std"]
 ## Cortex-M
 arch-cortex-m = ["_arch", "dep:cortex-m"]
 ## RISC-V 32
-arch-riscv32 = ["_arch", "dep:portable-atomic"]
+arch-riscv32 = ["_arch"]
 ## WASM
 arch-wasm = ["_arch", "dep:wasm-bindgen", "dep:js-sys"]
 ## AVR
diff --git a/embassy-executor/src/arch/riscv32.rs b/embassy-executor/src/arch/riscv32.rs
index c56f502d3..01e63a9fd 100644
--- a/embassy-executor/src/arch/riscv32.rs
+++ b/embassy-executor/src/arch/riscv32.rs
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ pub use thread::*;
 #[cfg(feature = "executor-thread")]
 mod thread {
     use core::marker::PhantomData;
+    use core::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 
     pub use embassy_executor_macros::main_riscv as main;
-    use portable_atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 
     use crate::{raw, Spawner};