diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4fb26b555e..e69de29bb2 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "framework"]
-	path = framework
-	url = https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls-framework
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e0adf00c54..043951b3f3 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -281,11 +281,6 @@ if(LIB_INSTALL_DIR)
     set(CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR "${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}")
 endif()
 
-if (NOT EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/framework/CMakeLists.txt")
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/framework/CMakeLists.txt not found. Run `git submodule update --init` from the source tree to fetch the submodule contents.")
-endif()
-add_subdirectory(framework)
-
 add_subdirectory(include)
 
 add_subdirectory(3rdparty)
diff --git a/framework b/framework
deleted file mode 160000
index 750634d3a5..0000000000
--- a/framework
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 750634d3a51eb9d61b59fd5d801546927c946588