diff --git a/recipes-devtools/riscv-tools/riscv-fesvr.bb b/recipes-devtools/riscv-tools/riscv-fesvr.bb
index 9a9f575..163c13a 100644
--- a/recipes-devtools/riscv-tools/riscv-fesvr.bb
+++ b/recipes-devtools/riscv-tools/riscv-fesvr.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.GPLv2;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 
 SRCREV = "8d108a0a647901550d95925549337c2c3aec9ac8"
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/riscv/riscv-fesvr.git \
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/riscv/riscv-fesvr.git;protocol=https;branch=master \
            file://fesvr-makefile.patch"
 
 inherit autotools gettext cross-canadian