diff --git a/arch/parisc/Kconfig b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
index f65268fd28ca..fbb114049a6b 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
@@ -260,18 +260,6 @@ config PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB
 
 endchoice
 
-config PARISC_SELF_EXTRACT
-	bool "Build kernel as self-extracting executable"
-	default y
-	help
-	  Say Y if you want to build the parisc kernel as a kind of
-	  self-extracting executable.
-
-	  If you say N here, the kernel will be compressed with gzip
-	  which can be loaded by the palo bootloader directly too.
-
-	  If you don't know what to do here, say Y.
-
 config SMP
 	bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
 	help
diff --git a/arch/parisc/Makefile b/arch/parisc/Makefile
index 6d7361364dad..2a9387a93592 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/parisc/Makefile
@@ -15,12 +15,8 @@
 # Mike Shaver, Helge Deller and Martin K. Petersen
 #
 
-ifdef CONFIG_PARISC_SELF_EXTRACT
 boot := arch/parisc/boot
 KBUILD_IMAGE := $(boot)/bzImage
-else
-KBUILD_IMAGE := vmlinuz
-endif
 
 NM		= sh $(srctree)/arch/parisc/nm
 CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__hppa__=1
@@ -165,13 +161,8 @@ Image: vmlinux
 bzImage: vmlinux
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(boot)/$@
 
-ifdef CONFIG_PARISC_SELF_EXTRACT
 vmlinuz: bzImage
 	$(OBJCOPY) $(boot)/bzImage $@
-else
-vmlinuz: vmlinux
-	@$(KGZIP) -cf -9 $< > $@
-endif
 
 ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
 # We need to generate vdso-offsets.h before compiling certain files in kernel/.