diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4fb26b555..e69de29bb 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 2ad867701..3af0108c8 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -298,11 +298,6 @@ 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 94599c0e3..000000000
--- a/framework
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 94599c0e3b5036e086446a51a3f79640f70f22f6