diff --git a/packages/tools/flashrom/package.mk b/packages/tools/flashrom/package.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 125dc1f270..0000000000
--- a/packages/tools/flashrom/package.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="flashrom"
-PKG_VERSION="0.9.6"
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_ARCH="x86_64"
-PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
-PKG_SITE="http://www.flashrom.org"
-PKG_URL="http://download.flashrom.org/releases/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib pciutils libftdi1"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
-PKG_SECTION="tools"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="flashrom: linux BIOS programmer"
-PKG_LONGDESC="flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various programmer devices."
-
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
-
-PKG_MAKE_OPTS_TARGET="CC=$TARGET_CC STRIP=$STRIP PREFIX=/usr WARNERROR=no"
-PKG_MAKEINSTALL_OPTS_TARGET="CC=$TARGET_CC STRIP=$STRIP PREFIX=/usr WARNERROR=no"
-
-pre_make_target() {
-  export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -ludev -lkmod"
-}
diff --git a/packages/tools/flashrom/patches/flashrom-01-libftdi1.patch b/packages/tools/flashrom/patches/flashrom-01-libftdi1.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 90e80534a9..0000000000
--- a/packages/tools/flashrom/patches/flashrom-01-libftdi1.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index 6b70ab8..f602b45 100644
---- a/Makefile
-+++ b/Makefile
-@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ NEED_PCI := yes
- endif
- 
- ifeq ($(CONFIG_FT2232_SPI), yes)
--FTDILIBS := $(shell pkg-config --libs libftdi 2>/dev/null || printf "%s" "-lftdi -lusb")
-+FTDILIBS := $(shell pkg-config --libs libftdi1 2>/dev/null || printf "%s" "-lftdi1 -lusb")
- # This is a totally ugly hack.
- FEATURE_CFLAGS += $(shell LC_ALL=C grep -q "FTDISUPPORT := yes" .features && printf "%s" "-D'CONFIG_FT2232_SPI=1'")
- FEATURE_LIBS += $(shell LC_ALL=C grep -q "FTDISUPPORT := yes" .features && printf "%s" "$(FTDILIBS)")
-@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ featuresavailable:
- endif
- 
- define FTDI_TEST
--#include <ftdi.h>
-+#include <libftdi1/ftdi.h>
- struct ftdi_context *ftdic = NULL;
- int main(int argc, char **argv)
- {
-diff --git a/ft2232_spi.c b/ft2232_spi.c
-index a5d3828..d54cf6a 100644
---- a/ft2232_spi.c
-+++ b/ft2232_spi.c
-@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
- #include "flash.h"
- #include "programmer.h"
- #include "spi.h"
--#include <ftdi.h>
-+#include <libftdi1/ftdi.h>
- 
- /* Please keep sorted by vendor ID, then device ID. */
- 
diff --git a/tools/mkpkg/mkpkg_flashrom b/tools/mkpkg/mkpkg_flashrom
deleted file mode 100755
index 54c099349b..0000000000
--- a/tools/mkpkg/mkpkg_flashrom
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-echo "getting sources..."
-  svn co svn://coreboot.org/flashrom/trunk flashrom-latest
-
-echo "getting version..."
-  cd flashrom-latest
-    SVN_REV=`LANG=C svn info 2>/dev/null | grep Revision: | sed -e 's/.*\: //'`
-    echo $SVN_REV
-  cd ..
-
-echo "copying sources..."
-  rm -rf flashrom-$SVN_REV
-  cp -R flashrom-latest flashrom-$SVN_REV
-
-echo "cleaning sources..."
-  find flashrom-$SVN_REV -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} ";"
-
-echo "packing sources..."
-  tar cvjf flashrom-$SVN_REV.tar.bz2 flashrom-$SVN_REV
-
-echo "remove temporary sourcedir..."
-  rm -rf flashrom-$SVN_REV