diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 16db398c6f..70e3ebcd50 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ bepo    cz
 ifdef INSTALL_BLOBS
 BLOBS=bios.bin bios-256k.bin sgabios.bin vgabios.bin vgabios-cirrus.bin \
 vgabios-stdvga.bin vgabios-vmware.bin vgabios-qxl.bin vgabios-virtio.bin \
-acpi-dsdt.aml q35-acpi-dsdt.aml \
+acpi-dsdt.aml \
 ppc_rom.bin openbios-sparc32 openbios-sparc64 openbios-ppc QEMU,tcx.bin QEMU,cgthree.bin \
 pxe-e1000.rom pxe-eepro100.rom pxe-ne2k_pci.rom \
 pxe-pcnet.rom pxe-rtl8139.rom pxe-virtio.rom \
diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_q35.c b/hw/i386/pc_q35.c
index 06a5f9524c..da28d7774b 100644
--- a/hw/i386/pc_q35.c
+++ b/hw/i386/pc_q35.c
@@ -116,10 +116,6 @@ static void pc_q35_init(MachineState *machine)
     }
 
     pc_cpus_init(pcms);
-    if (!pcmc->has_acpi_build) {
-        /* only machine types 1.7 & older need this */
-        pc_acpi_init("q35-acpi-dsdt.aml");
-    }
 
     kvmclock_create();
 
diff --git a/pc-bios/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml b/pc-bios/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml
deleted file mode 100644
index d71b3a328c..0000000000
Binary files a/pc-bios/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml and /dev/null differ