diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
index 7a719d0d60..57f8c313a7 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
@@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ dev-util/patchelf *
 =sec-policy/selinux-virt-2.20200818-r2 ~arm64
 =sys-apps/checkpolicy-3.1 ~arm64
 
-# needed to force enable lshw for arm64
-=sys-apps/lshw-02.17b-r2 **
-
 =sys-apps/man-db-2.7.6.1-r2 ~arm64
 =sys-apps/policycoreutils-3.1-r3 ~arm64
 =sys-apps/kexec-tools-2.0.17-r1 ~arm64