diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0dda17d64..0f9ad34c7 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -25,3 +25,6 @@
 [submodule "lib/lwip"]
 	path = lib/lwip
 	url = https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/lwip.git
+[submodule "lib/FreeRTOS"]
+	path = lib/FreeRTOS
+	url = https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS.git
diff --git a/lib/FreeRTOS b/lib/FreeRTOS
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..c40a6da2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/FreeRTOS
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit c40a6da2e4cb8042b56d1b174051cbbe9813781a