diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 971e92fd79..def2ae23cd 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ install-confdir:
 
 install-sysconfig: install-datadir install-confdir
 	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(SRC_PATH)/sysconfigs/target/target-x86_64.conf "$(DESTDIR)$(qemu_confdir)"
-	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(SRC_PATH)/sysconfigs/target/cpus-x86_64.conf "$(DESTDIR)$(qemu_datadir)"
 
 install: all $(if $(BUILD_DOCS),install-doc) install-sysconfig install-datadir
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)"
diff --git a/arch_init.c b/arch_init.c
index f849f9b872..9904f95478 100644
--- a/arch_init.c
+++ b/arch_init.c
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ static struct defconfig_file {
     /* Indicates it is an user config file (disabled by -no-user-config) */
     bool userconfig;
 } default_config_files[] = {
-    { CONFIG_QEMU_DATADIR "/cpus-" TARGET_ARCH ".conf",  false },
     { CONFIG_QEMU_CONFDIR "/qemu.conf",                   true },
     { CONFIG_QEMU_CONFDIR "/target-" TARGET_ARCH ".conf", true },
     { NULL }, /* end of list */
diff --git a/sysconfigs/target/cpus-x86_64.conf b/sysconfigs/target/cpus-x86_64.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 3902189836..0000000000
--- a/sysconfigs/target/cpus-x86_64.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-# The CPU models from this file are now built-in in the QEMU source code