diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2bc2dcdccc0b..b21bc7bf9c93 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1216,18 +1216,6 @@ if(NOT CONFIG_BUILD_NO_GAP_FILL)
   set(GAP_FILL "--gap-fill;0xff")
 endif()
 
-if(CONFIG_CHECK_LINK_MAP)
-  list(APPEND
-    post_build_commands
-    COMMAND
-    ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} ${ZEPHYR_BASE}/scripts/check_link_map.py ${KERNEL_MAP_NAME}
-    )
-  list(APPEND
-    post_build_byproducts
-    ${KERNEL_MAP_NAME}
-    )
-endif()
-
 if(CONFIG_BUILD_OUTPUT_HEX)
   list(APPEND
     post_build_commands
diff --git a/Kconfig.zephyr b/Kconfig.zephyr
index e235c4d89362..18ed28207fae 100644
--- a/Kconfig.zephyr
+++ b/Kconfig.zephyr
@@ -188,13 +188,6 @@ config KERNEL_ENTRY
 	help
 	  Code entry symbol, to be set at linking phase.
 
-config CHECK_LINK_MAP
-	bool "Check linker map"
-	default y
-	help
-	  Run a linker address generation validity checker at the end of the
-	  build.
-
 config LINKER_SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT
 	bool "Sort input sections by alignment"
 	default y
diff --git a/scripts/check_link_map.py b/scripts/check_link_map.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 1643fa951e8c..000000000000
--- a/scripts/check_link_map.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-import fileinput
-import re
-import sys
-
-# Linker address generation validity checker.  By default, GNU ld is
-# broken when faced with sections where the load address (i.e. the
-# spot in the XIP program binary where initialized data lives) differs
-# from the virtual address (i.e. the location in RAM where that data
-# will live at runtime.  We need to be sure we're using the
-# ALIGN_WITH_INPUT feature correctly everywhere, which is hard --
-# especially so given that many of these bugs are semi-invisible at
-# runtime (most initialized data is still a bunch of zeros and often
-# "works" even if it's wrong).
-#
-# This quick test just checks the offsets between sequential segments
-# with separate VMA/LMA addresses and verifies that the size deltas
-# are identical.
-#
-# Note that this is assuming that the address generation is always
-# in-order and that there is only one "ROM" LMA block.  It's possible
-# to write a valid linker script that will fail this script, but we
-# don't have such a use case and one isn't forseen.
-
-section_re = re.compile(r'(?x)'                    # (allow whitespace)
-                        r'^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+) \s+'  # name
-                        r' (0x[0-9a-f]+)     \s+'  # addr
-                        r' (0x[0-9a-f]+)\s*')      # size
-
-load_addr_re = re.compile('load address (0x[0-9a-f]+)')
-
-in_prologue = True
-lma = 0
-last_sec = None
-
-for line in fileinput.input():
-    # Skip the header junk
-    if line.find("Linker script and memory map") >= 0:
-        in_prologue = False
-        continue
-
-    match = section_re.match(line.rstrip())
-    if match:
-        sec = match.group(1)
-        vma = int(match.group(2), 16)
-        size = int(match.group(3), 16)
-
-        if sec == "bss":
-            # Make sure we don't compare the last section of kernel data
-            # with the first section of application data, the kernel's bss
-            # and noinit are in between.
-            last_sec = None
-            continue
-
-        lmatch = load_addr_re.search(line.rstrip())
-        if lmatch:
-            lma = int(lmatch.group(1), 16)
-        else:
-            last_sec = None
-            continue
-
-        if last_sec is not None:
-            dv = vma - last_vma
-            dl = lma - last_lma
-            if dv != dl:
-                sys.stderr.write("ERROR: section %s is %d bytes "
-                                 "in the virtual/runtime address space, "
-                                 "but only %d in the loaded/XIP section!\n"
-                                 % (last_sec, dv, dl))
-                sys.exit(1)
-
-        last_sec = sec
-        last_vma = vma
-        last_lma = lma