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 4a7c01eb2e..bcc7d6050e 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
@@ -59,8 +59,6 @@ sys-apps/dtc ~arm64
 # needed by arm64-native SDK
 sys-apps/debianutils *
 
-=sys-apps/i2c-tools-3.1.1-r1 ~arm64
-
 # needed to force enable lshw for arm64
 =sys-apps/lshw-02.17b-r2 **