diff --git a/src/system/boot/arch/arm/arch_cpu.cpp b/src/system/boot/arch/arm/arch_cpu.cpp
index 11f8548655..e544ed6a12 100644
--- a/src/system/boot/arch/arm/arch_cpu.cpp
+++ b/src/system/boot/arch/arm/arch_cpu.cpp
@@ -81,26 +81,6 @@ check_cpu_features()
 			break;
 	}
 
-	// We could check for VFP/NEON support here, but for the moment we only
-	// really target ARM CPU's with VFP/NEON built-in (cortex-a7+)
-	if (arch >= ARCH_ARM_v7)
-	{
-		// Enable VFP/NEON. We HAVE to do this before the trace call below,
-		// which is the first time we call vprintf. Otherwise, it will crash
-		// when trying to push floating point registers on the stack.
-		asm volatile(
-		"	MRC p15, #0, r1, c1, c0, #2\n" // r1 = Access Control Register
-		"	ORR r1, r1, #(0xf << 20)\n" // enable full access for p10,11
-		"	MCR p15, #0, r1, c1, c0, #2\n" // Access Control Register = r1
-		"	MOV r1, #0\n"
-		"	MCR p15, #0, r1, c7, c5, #4\n" // flush prefetch buffer because of
-			// FMXR below and CP 10 & 11 were only just enabled
-		"	MOV r0,#0x40000000	\n" // Enable VFP itself
-		"	FMXR FPEXC, r0" //FPEXC = r0
-		:::"r0", "r1");
-	}
-
-
 	TRACE(("%s: implementor=0x%x('%c'), arch=%d, variant=0x%x, part=0x%x, revision=0x%x\n",
 		__func__, implementor, implementor, arch, variant, part, revision));