diff --git a/meta-crownbay/conf/machine/crownbay-noemgd.conf b/meta-crownbay/conf/machine/crownbay-noemgd.conf
index cc0b2eb2..315357d1 100644
--- a/meta-crownbay/conf/machine/crownbay-noemgd.conf
+++ b/meta-crownbay/conf/machine/crownbay-noemgd.conf
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 #@DESCRIPTION: Machine configuration for Crown Bay systems, without Intel-proprietary graphics bits
 # i.e. E660 + EG20T
 
-TARGET_ARCH = "i586"
-
 include conf/machine/include/tune-atom.inc
 
 MACHINE_FEATURES = "kernel26 screen keyboard pci usbhost ext2 ext3 x86 \
diff --git a/meta-crownbay/conf/machine/crownbay.conf b/meta-crownbay/conf/machine/crownbay.conf
index c66b8597..dcdc758e 100644
--- a/meta-crownbay/conf/machine/crownbay.conf
+++ b/meta-crownbay/conf/machine/crownbay.conf
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 #@DESCRIPTION: Machine configuration for Crown Bay systems
 # i.e. E660 + EG20T
 
-TARGET_ARCH = "i586"
-
 include conf/machine/include/tune-atom.inc
 
 MACHINE_FEATURES = "kernel26 screen keyboard pci usbhost ext2 ext3 x86 \