diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 50eaf005f4..9823f40213 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1077,8 +1077,6 @@ F: hw/*/spapr*
 F: include/hw/*/spapr*
 F: hw/*/xics*
 F: include/hw/*/xics*
-F: pc-bios/spapr-rtas/*
-F: pc-bios/spapr-rtas.bin
 F: pc-bios/slof.bin
 F: docs/specs/ppc-spapr-hcalls.txt
 F: docs/specs/ppc-spapr-hotplug.txt
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ae17a83067..4637f95371 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ qemu-nsis.bmp \
 bamboo.dtb canyonlands.dtb petalogix-s3adsp1800.dtb petalogix-ml605.dtb \
 multiboot.bin linuxboot.bin linuxboot_dma.bin kvmvapic.bin pvh.bin \
 s390-ccw.img s390-netboot.img \
-spapr-rtas.bin slof.bin skiboot.lid \
+slof.bin skiboot.lid \
 palcode-clipper \
 u-boot.e500 u-boot-sam460-20100605.bin \
 qemu_vga.ndrv \
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 95134c0180..b79d38592b 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -6211,9 +6211,6 @@ if { test "$cpu" = "i386" || test "$cpu" = "x86_64"; } && \
         fi
     done
 fi
-if test "$ARCH" = "ppc64" && test "$targetos" != "Darwin" ; then
-  roms="$roms spapr-rtas"
-fi
 
 # Only build s390-ccw bios if we're on s390x and the compiler has -march=z900
 if test "$cpu" = "s390x" ; then
@@ -7930,14 +7927,13 @@ fi
 DIRS="tests tests/tcg tests/tcg/cris tests/tcg/lm32 tests/libqos tests/qapi-schema tests/tcg/xtensa tests/qemu-iotests tests/vm"
 DIRS="$DIRS tests/fp tests/qgraph"
 DIRS="$DIRS docs docs/interop fsdev scsi"
-DIRS="$DIRS pc-bios/optionrom pc-bios/spapr-rtas pc-bios/s390-ccw"
+DIRS="$DIRS pc-bios/optionrom pc-bios/s390-ccw"
 DIRS="$DIRS roms/seabios roms/vgabios"
 LINKS="Makefile tests/tcg/Makefile"
 LINKS="$LINKS tests/tcg/cris/Makefile tests/tcg/cris/.gdbinit"
 LINKS="$LINKS tests/tcg/lm32/Makefile tests/tcg/xtensa/Makefile po/Makefile"
 LINKS="$LINKS tests/fp/Makefile"
 LINKS="$LINKS pc-bios/optionrom/Makefile pc-bios/keymaps"
-LINKS="$LINKS pc-bios/spapr-rtas/Makefile"
 LINKS="$LINKS pc-bios/s390-ccw/Makefile"
 LINKS="$LINKS roms/seabios/Makefile roms/vgabios/Makefile"
 LINKS="$LINKS pc-bios/qemu-icon.bmp"
diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
index d18744268f..5a919a6cc1 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@
  * We load our kernel at 4M, leaving space for SLOF initial image
  */
 #define FDT_MAX_SIZE            0x100000
-#define RTAS_MAX_SIZE           0x10000
 #define RTAS_MAX_ADDR           0x80000000 /* RTAS must stay below that */
 #define FW_MAX_SIZE             0x400000
 #define FW_FILE_NAME            "slof.bin"
@@ -1721,8 +1720,7 @@ static void spapr_machine_reset(MachineState *machine)
 {
     SpaprMachineState *spapr = SPAPR_MACHINE(machine);
     PowerPCCPU *first_ppc_cpu;
-    uint32_t rtas_limit;
-    hwaddr rtas_addr, fdt_addr;
+    hwaddr fdt_addr;
     void *fdt;
     int rc;
 
@@ -1786,14 +1784,10 @@ static void spapr_machine_reset(MachineState *machine)
      * or just below 2GB, whichever is lower, so that it can be
      * processed with 32-bit real mode code if necessary
      */
-    rtas_limit = MIN(spapr->rma_size, RTAS_MAX_ADDR);
-    rtas_addr = rtas_limit - RTAS_MAX_SIZE;
-    fdt_addr = rtas_addr - FDT_MAX_SIZE;
+    fdt_addr = MIN(spapr->rma_size, RTAS_MAX_ADDR) - FDT_MAX_SIZE;
 
     fdt = spapr_build_fdt(spapr);
 
-    spapr_load_rtas(spapr, fdt, rtas_addr);
-
     rc = fdt_pack(fdt);
 
     /* Should only fail if we've built a corrupted tree */
@@ -2953,28 +2947,6 @@ static void spapr_machine_init(MachineState *machine)
         spapr_create_lmb_dr_connectors(spapr);
     }
 
-    filename = qemu_find_file(QEMU_FILE_TYPE_BIOS, "spapr-rtas.bin");
-    if (!filename) {
-        error_report("Could not find LPAR rtas '%s'", "spapr-rtas.bin");
-        exit(1);
-    }
-    spapr->rtas_size = get_image_size(filename);
-    if (spapr->rtas_size < 0) {
-        error_report("Could not get size of LPAR rtas '%s'", filename);
-        exit(1);
-    }
-    spapr->rtas_blob = g_malloc(spapr->rtas_size);
-    if (load_image_size(filename, spapr->rtas_blob, spapr->rtas_size) < 0) {
-        error_report("Could not load LPAR rtas '%s'", filename);
-        exit(1);
-    }
-    if (spapr->rtas_size > RTAS_MAX_SIZE) {
-        error_report("RTAS too big ! 0x%zx bytes (max is 0x%x)",
-                     (size_t)spapr->rtas_size, RTAS_MAX_SIZE);
-        exit(1);
-    }
-    g_free(filename);
-
     /* Set up RTAS event infrastructure */
     spapr_events_init(spapr);
 
diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
index bee3835214..8d8d8cdfcb 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c
@@ -477,47 +477,6 @@ void spapr_dt_rtas_tokens(void *fdt, int rtas)
     }
 }
 
-void spapr_load_rtas(SpaprMachineState *spapr, void *fdt, hwaddr addr)
-{
-    int rtas_node;
-    int ret;
-
-    /* Copy RTAS blob into guest RAM */
-    cpu_physical_memory_write(addr, spapr->rtas_blob, spapr->rtas_size);
-
-    ret = fdt_add_mem_rsv(fdt, addr, spapr->rtas_size);
-    if (ret < 0) {
-        error_report("Couldn't add RTAS reserve entry: %s",
-                     fdt_strerror(ret));
-        exit(1);
-    }
-
-    /* Update the device tree with the blob's location */
-    rtas_node = fdt_path_offset(fdt, "/rtas");
-    assert(rtas_node >= 0);
-
-    ret = fdt_setprop_cell(fdt, rtas_node, "linux,rtas-base", addr);
-    if (ret < 0) {
-        error_report("Couldn't add linux,rtas-base property: %s",
-                     fdt_strerror(ret));
-        exit(1);
-    }
-
-    ret = fdt_setprop_cell(fdt, rtas_node, "linux,rtas-entry", addr);
-    if (ret < 0) {
-        error_report("Couldn't add linux,rtas-entry property: %s",
-                     fdt_strerror(ret));
-        exit(1);
-    }
-
-    ret = fdt_setprop_cell(fdt, rtas_node, "rtas-size", spapr->rtas_size);
-    if (ret < 0) {
-        error_report("Couldn't add rtas-size property: %s",
-                     fdt_strerror(ret));
-        exit(1);
-    }
-}
-
 static void core_rtas_register_types(void)
 {
     spapr_rtas_register(RTAS_DISPLAY_CHARACTER, "display-character",
diff --git a/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h b/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
index dfec8e8e76..cbd1a4c9f3 100644
--- a/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
+++ b/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
@@ -154,8 +154,6 @@ struct SpaprMachineState {
 
     hwaddr rma_size;
     int vrma_adjust;
-    ssize_t rtas_size;
-    void *rtas_blob;
     uint32_t fdt_size;
     uint32_t fdt_initial_size;
     void *fdt_blob;
diff --git a/pc-bios/spapr-rtas.bin b/pc-bios/spapr-rtas.bin
deleted file mode 100644
index fc24c8ed8b..0000000000
Binary files a/pc-bios/spapr-rtas.bin and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/pc-bios/spapr-rtas/Makefile b/pc-bios/spapr-rtas/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b9bb12306..0000000000
--- a/pc-bios/spapr-rtas/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-all: build-all
-# Dummy command so that make thinks it has done something
-	@true
-
-include ../../config-host.mak
-include $(SRC_PATH)/rules.mak
-
-$(call set-vpath, $(SRC_PATH)/pc-bios/spapr-rtas)
-
-.PHONY : all clean build-all
-
-#CFLAGS += -I$(SRC_PATH)
-#QEMU_CFLAGS = $(CFLAGS)
-
-build-all: spapr-rtas.bin
-
-%.o: %.S
-	$(call quiet-command,$(CCAS) -mbig -c -o $@ $<,"CCAS","$(TARGET_DIR)$@")
-
-%.img: %.o
-	$(call quiet-command,$(CC) -nostdlib -mbig -o $@ $<,"Building","$(TARGET_DIR)$@")
-
-%.bin: %.img
-	$(call quiet-command,$(OBJCOPY) -O binary -j .text $< $@,"Building","$(TARGET_DIR)$@")
-
-clean:
-	rm -f *.o *.d *.img *.bin *~
diff --git a/pc-bios/spapr-rtas/spapr-rtas.S b/pc-bios/spapr-rtas/spapr-rtas.S
deleted file mode 100644
index 903bec2150..0000000000
--- a/pc-bios/spapr-rtas/spapr-rtas.S
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * QEMU PowerPC pSeries Logical Partition (aka sPAPR) hardware System Emulator
- *
- * Trivial in-partition RTAS implementation, based on a hypercall
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2010,2011 David Gibson, IBM Corporation.
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
- * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
- * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
- * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
- * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
- * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
- * THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- */
-
-#define KVMPPC_HCALL_BASE       0xf000
-#define KVMPPC_H_RTAS           (KVMPPC_HCALL_BASE + 0x0)
-
-.globl	_start
-_start:
-	mr	4,3
-	lis	3,KVMPPC_H_RTAS@h
-	ori	3,3,KVMPPC_H_RTAS@l
-	sc	1
-	blr
