diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
index 178256c83f..8198c05d74 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
@@ -763,7 +763,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-support = "\
     htop \
     hunspell \
     hunspell-dictionaries \
-    hwdata \
     icyque \
     iksemel \
     imagemagick \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hwdata/hwdata_0.389.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hwdata/hwdata_0.389.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index fffd491178..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hwdata/hwdata_0.389.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Hardware identification and configuration data"
-HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/vcrhonek/hwdata"
-SECTION = "System/Base"
-
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later | XFree86-1.0"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=1556547711e8246992b999edd9445a57"
-
-SRCREV = "5313a12eb992a354c17fc895c1d69c8c42b09a06"
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/vcrhonek/${BPN}.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
-
-inherit allarch
-
-do_configure() {
-    ${S}/configure --datadir=${datadir} --libdir=${libdir}
-}
-
-do_compile[noexec] = "1"
-
-do_install() {
-    oe_runmake install DESTDIR=${D}
-}
-
-FILES:${PN} = "${libdir}/* \
-               ${datadir}/* "
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND += "native"