diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 5b0c212622..84c54cdc49 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@
 [submodule "roms/sgabios"]
 	path = roms/sgabios
 	url = git://git.qemu-project.org/sgabios.git
-[submodule "pixman"]
-	path = pixman
-	url = git://anongit.freedesktop.org/pixman
 [submodule "dtc"]
 	path = dtc
 	url = git://git.qemu-project.org/dtc.git
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 337a1f6f9b..b53fc69a60 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -325,15 +325,6 @@ $(SOFTMMU_SUBDIR_RULES): config-all-devices.mak
 subdir-%:
 	$(call quiet-command,$(MAKE) $(SUBDIR_MAKEFLAGS) -C $* V="$(V)" TARGET_DIR="$*/" all,)
 
-subdir-pixman: pixman/Makefile
-	$(call quiet-command,$(MAKE) $(SUBDIR_MAKEFLAGS) -C pixman V="$(V)" all,)
-
-pixman/Makefile: $(SRC_PATH)/pixman/configure
-	(cd pixman; CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS) -fPIC $(extra_cflags) $(extra_ldflags)" $(SRC_PATH)/pixman/configure $(AUTOCONF_HOST) --disable-gtk --disable-shared --enable-static)
-
-$(SRC_PATH)/pixman/configure:
-	(cd $(SRC_PATH)/pixman; autoreconf -v --install)
-
 DTC_MAKE_ARGS=-I$(SRC_PATH)/dtc VPATH=$(SRC_PATH)/dtc -C dtc V="$(V)" LIBFDT_srcdir=$(SRC_PATH)/dtc/libfdt
 DTC_CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) $(QEMU_CFLAGS)
 DTC_CPPFLAGS=-I$(BUILD_DIR)/dtc -I$(SRC_PATH)/dtc -I$(SRC_PATH)/dtc/libfdt
@@ -541,7 +532,6 @@ distclean: clean
 	rm -rf $$d || exit 1 ; \
         done
 	rm -Rf .sdk
-	if test -f pixman/config.log; then $(MAKE) -C pixman distclean; fi
 	if test -f dtc/version_gen.h; then $(MAKE) $(DTC_MAKE_ARGS) clean; fi
 
 KEYMAPS=da     en-gb  et  fr     fr-ch  is  lt  modifiers  no  pt-br  sv \
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index fd7e3a5e81..ee32ad0530 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -925,8 +925,6 @@ for opt do
   ;;
   --with-system-pixman) pixman="system"
   ;;
-  --without-system-pixman) pixman="internal"
-  ;;
   --without-pixman) pixman="none"
   ;;
   --disable-sdl) sdl="no"
@@ -3300,8 +3298,6 @@ if test "$pixman" = ""; then
     pixman="none"
   elif $pkg_config --atleast-version=0.21.8 pixman-1 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
     pixman="system"
-  else
-    pixman="internal"
   fi
 fi
 if test "$pixman" = "none"; then
@@ -3318,16 +3314,8 @@ elif test "$pixman" = "system"; then
   pixman_cflags=$($pkg_config --cflags pixman-1)
   pixman_libs=$($pkg_config --libs pixman-1)
 else
-  if test ! -d ${source_path}/pixman/pixman; then
-    error_exit "pixman >= 0.21.8 not present. Your options:" \
-        "  (1) Preferred: Install the pixman devel package (any recent" \
-        "      distro should have packages as Xorg needs pixman too)." \
-        "  (2) Fetch the pixman submodule, using:" \
-        "      git submodule update --init pixman"
-  fi
-  mkdir -p pixman/pixman
-  pixman_cflags="-I\$(SRC_PATH)/pixman/pixman -I\$(BUILD_DIR)/pixman/pixman"
-  pixman_libs="-L\$(BUILD_DIR)/pixman/pixman/.libs -lpixman-1"
+  error_exit "pixman >= 0.21.8 not present." \
+      "Please install the pixman devel package."
 fi
 
 ##########################################
@@ -6529,10 +6517,6 @@ echo "QEMU_CFLAGS+=$cflags" >> $config_target_mak
 
 done # for target in $targets
 
-if [ "$pixman" = "internal" ]; then
-  echo "config-host.h: subdir-pixman" >> $config_host_mak
-fi
-
 if [ "$dtc_internal" = "yes" ]; then
   echo "config-host.h: subdir-dtc" >> $config_host_mak
 fi
diff --git a/pixman b/pixman
deleted file mode 160000
index 87eea99e44..0000000000
--- a/pixman
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 87eea99e443b389c978cf37efc52788bf03a0ee0
diff --git a/ui/qemu-pixman.c b/ui/qemu-pixman.c
index 6e8b83add6..6e591ab821 100644
--- a/ui/qemu-pixman.c
+++ b/ui/qemu-pixman.c
@@ -96,17 +96,13 @@ int qemu_pixman_get_type(int rshift, int gshift, int bshift)
         if (bshift == 0) {
             type = PIXMAN_TYPE_ARGB;
         } else {
-#if PIXMAN_VERSION >= PIXMAN_VERSION_ENCODE(0, 21, 8)
             type = PIXMAN_TYPE_RGBA;
-#endif
         }
     } else if (rshift < gshift && gshift < bshift) {
         if (rshift == 0) {
             type = PIXMAN_TYPE_ABGR;
         } else {
-#if PIXMAN_VERSION >= PIXMAN_VERSION_ENCODE(0, 16, 0)
             type = PIXMAN_TYPE_BGRA;
-#endif
         }
     }
     return type;