diff --git a/distributions/OpenELEC/options b/distributions/OpenELEC/options
index 97105eca84..1323fb4736 100644
--- a/distributions/OpenELEC/options
+++ b/distributions/OpenELEC/options
@@ -212,9 +212,6 @@
 # cron support (yes / no)
   CRON_SUPPORT="yes"
 
-# Perf support in development builds (yes / no)
-  PERF_SUPPORT="yes"
-
 # Distribution Specific source location
   DISTRO_MIRROR="http://sources.openelec.tv/mirror"
   DISTRO_SRC="http://sources.openelec.tv/$OPENELEC_VERSION"
diff --git a/packages/linux/package.mk b/packages/linux/package.mk
index 07bf23e3b3..c4b8a84c95 100644
--- a/packages/linux/package.mk
+++ b/packages/linux/package.mk
@@ -47,10 +47,6 @@ PKG_LONGDESC="This package contains a precompiled kernel image and the modules."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
 
-if [ "$PERF_SUPPORT" = "yes" -a "$DEVTOOLS" = "yes" ]; then
-  PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="$PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET elfutils Python"
-fi
-
 PKG_MAKE_OPTS_HOST="ARCH=$TARGET_ARCH headers_check"
 
 if [ "$BOOTLOADER" = "u-boot" ]; then
@@ -148,33 +144,6 @@ make_target() {
   fi
 
   LDFLAGS="" make $KERNEL_IMAGE $KERNEL_MAKE_EXTRACMD
-
-  if [ "$PERF_SUPPORT" = "yes" -a "$DEVTOOLS" = "yes" ]; then
-    ( cd tools/perf
-
-      # dont use some optimizations because of build problems
-        strip_lto
-        LDFLAGS=`echo $LDFLAGS | sed -e "s|-Wl,--as-needed||"`
-
-      export FLAGSGLIBC="$CFLAGS -I$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include"
-      export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include"
-      export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib"
-
-      make CROSS_COMPILE="$TARGET_PREFIX" \
-           ARCH="$TARGET_ARCH" \
-           V=1 \
-           DEBUG=false \
-           NLS=false \
-           NO_GTK2=true \
-           NO_LIBELF=false \
-           NO_LIBPERL=true \
-           NO_LIBPYTHON=false \
-           PYTHON=$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/bin/python \
-           WERROR=0 \
-           NO_SLANG=1 \
-           EXTRA_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
-    )
-  fi
 }
 
 makeinstall_target() {
@@ -194,15 +163,6 @@ makeinstall_target() {
       fi
     done
   fi
-
-  if [ "$PERF_SUPPORT" = "yes" -a "$DEVTOOLS" = "yes" ]; then
-    mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/bin
-      cp -P tools/perf/perf $INSTALL/usr/bin/
-
-    mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/
-      cp -P tools/perf/perf-archive $INSTALL/usr/libexec/perf-core/
-      cp -rP tools/perf/scripts/python/* $INSTALL/usr/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/
-  fi
 }
 
 make_init() {
diff --git a/packages/linux/patches/3.19/linux-999.05-fix-perf-build.patch b/packages/linux/patches/3.19/linux-999.05-fix-perf-build.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e8c1040582..0000000000
--- a/packages/linux/patches/3.19/linux-999.05-fix-perf-build.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-From	He Kuang <>
-Subject	[PATCH] perf: fix building error in x86_64
-Date	Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:01:08 +0800
-
-
-When build with ARCH=x86_64, perf failed to compile with following error:
-
-tests/builtin-test.o:(.data+0x158): undefined reference to `test__perf_time_to_tsc'
-collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
-Makefile.perf:632: recipe for target 'perf' failed
-...
-
-Which is caused commit c6e5e9fbc3ea1 ("perf tools: Fix building error
-in x86_64 when dwarf unwind is on"), ARCH test in Makefile.perf
-conflicts with tests/builtin-test.c's __x86_64__.
-To x86/x86_64 platform, ARCH should always override to x86 while
-IS_64_BIT stands for the actual architecture.
-
-Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
----
- tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch b/tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch
-index ff95a68..8c6214d 100644
---- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch
-+++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch
-@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ifeq ($(RAW_ARCH),i386)
- endif
- 
- ifeq ($(RAW_ARCH),x86_64)
--  ARCH ?= x86
-+  override ARCH := x86
- 
-   ifneq (, $(findstring m32,$(CFLAGS)))
-     RAW_ARCH := x86_32
--- 
-2.2.0.33.gc18b867
-