diff --git a/src/arch/arm/include/arch/early_variables.h b/src/arch/arm/include/arch/early_variables.h
index 0c866a09ce..fc472e0882 100644
--- a/src/arch/arm/include/arch/early_variables.h
+++ b/src/arch/arm/include/arch/early_variables.h
@@ -20,40 +20,17 @@
 #ifndef ARCH_EARLY_VARIABLES_H
 #define ARCH_EARLY_VARIABLES_H
 
-#ifdef __PRE_RAM__
-#define CAR_GLOBAL __attribute__((section(".car.global_data")))
-#define CAR_CBMEM __attribute__((section(".car.cbmem_console")))
-#else
-#define CAR_GLOBAL
-#define CAR_CBMEM
+#if CONFIG_CAR_MIGRATION
+	#error "This is ARM, silly... we don't have CAR here."
 #endif
 
-#if CONFIG_CAR_MIGRATION && defined(__PRE_RAM__)
-#define CAR_MIGRATE_ATTR __attribute__ ((used,section (".car.migrate")))
+#define CAR_GLOBAL
+#define CAR_CBMEM
 
-/* Call migrate_fn_() when CAR globals are migrated. */
-#define CAR_MIGRATE(migrate_fn_) \
-	static void (* const migrate_fn_ ## _ptr)(void) CAR_MIGRATE_ATTR = \
-	migrate_fn_;
-
-/* Get the correct pointer for the CAR global variable. */
-void *car_get_var_ptr(void *var);
-
-/* Get and set a primitive type global variable. */
-#define car_get_var(var) \
-	*(typeof(var) *)car_get_var_ptr(&(var))
-#define car_set_var(var, val) \
-	do { car_get_var(var) = (val); } while(0)
-
-/* Migrate the CAR variables to memory. */
-void car_migrate_variables(void);
-
-#else
 #define CAR_MIGRATE(migrate_fn_)
 static inline void *car_get_var_ptr(void *var) { return var; }
 #define car_get_var(var) (var)
 #define car_set_var(var, val) do { (var) = (val); } while (0)
 static inline void car_migrate_variables(void) { }
-#endif
 
 #endif
diff --git a/src/arch/arm/romstage.ld b/src/arch/arm/romstage.ld
index bdf669db82..d5d9ddecdd 100644
--- a/src/arch/arm/romstage.ld
+++ b/src/arch/arm/romstage.ld
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ ENTRY(stage_entry)
 
 SECTIONS
 {
-	/* TODO make this a configurable option (per chipset). */
 	. = CONFIG_ROMSTAGE_BASE;
 
 	.romtext . : {
@@ -48,11 +47,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.rodata);
 		*(.machine_param);
 		*(.data);
-		. = ALIGN(16);
-		_car_migrate_start = .;
-		*(.car.migrate);
-		_car_migrate_end = .;
-		. = ALIGN(16);
+		. = ALIGN(8);
 		_erom = .;
 	}
 
@@ -70,32 +65,8 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	_ebss = .;
 
-	.car.data . : {
-		. = ALIGN(8);
-		_car_data_start = .;
-		*(.car.global_data);
-		. = ALIGN(8);
-		/* The cbmem_console section comes last to take advantage of
-		 * a zero-sized array to hold the memconsole contents that
-		 * grows to a bound of CONFIG_CONSOLE_CAR_BUFFER_SIZE. However,
-		 * collisions within the cache-as-ram region cannot be
-		 * statically checked because the cache-as-ram region usage is
-		 * cpu/chipset dependent. */
-		*(.car.cbmem_console);
-		_car_data_end = .;
-	}
-
 	_end = .;
 
-	/* TODO: check if we are running out of SRAM. Below check is not good
-	 * enough though because SRAM has different size on different CPUs
-	 * and not all SRAM is available to the romstage. On Exynos, some is
-	 * used for BL1, the bootblock and the stack.
-	 *
-	 * _bogus = ASSERT((_end - _start + EXPECTED_CBMEM_CONSOLE_SIZE <= \
-	 * 				0x54000), "SRAM area is too full");
-	 */
-
 	/* Discard the sections we don't need/want */
 	/DISCARD/ : {
 		*(.comment)
diff --git a/src/soc/samsung/exynos5250/Kconfig b/src/soc/samsung/exynos5250/Kconfig
index 982008b7fc..f61da9354c 100644
--- a/src/soc/samsung/exynos5250/Kconfig
+++ b/src/soc/samsung/exynos5250/Kconfig
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ config CPU_SAMSUNG_EXYNOS5250
 	select HAVE_UART_SPECIAL
 	select EARLY_CONSOLE
 	select DYNAMIC_CBMEM
-	select CAR_MIGRATION
 	select ARM_BOOTBLOCK_ARMV7
 	select ARM_ROMSTAGE_ARMV7
 	select ARM_RAMSTAGE_ARMV7
diff --git a/src/soc/samsung/exynos5420/Kconfig b/src/soc/samsung/exynos5420/Kconfig
index d53064a5fe..19e19f9871 100644
--- a/src/soc/samsung/exynos5420/Kconfig
+++ b/src/soc/samsung/exynos5420/Kconfig
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ config CPU_SAMSUNG_EXYNOS5420
 	select EARLY_CONSOLE
 	select RELOCATABLE_MODULES
 	select DYNAMIC_CBMEM
-	select CAR_MIGRATION
 	select ARM_BOOTBLOCK_ARMV7
 	select ARM_ROMSTAGE_ARMV7
 	select ARM_RAMSTAGE_ARMV7