diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/metadata/md5-cache/sys-apps/iotools-1.2-r2 b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/metadata/md5-cache/sys-apps/iotools-1.2-r2
deleted file mode 100644
index 00b21e9ff7..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/metadata/md5-cache/sys-apps/iotools-1.2-r2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-DEFINED_PHASES=compile install
-DESCRIPTION=Simple commands to access hardware device registers
-EAPI=0
-HOMEPAGE=http://code.google.com/p/iotools/
-IUSE=hardened
-KEYWORDS=x86 amd64
-LICENSE=GPL-2
-SLOT=0
-SRC_URI=http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/iotools-1.2.tar.gz
-_eclasses_=desktop	b1d22ac8bdd4679ab79c71aca235009d	epatch	a1bf4756dba418a7238f3be0cb010c54	estack	43ddf5aaffa7a8d0482df54d25a66a1f	eutils	6e6c2737b59a4b982de6fb3ecefd87f8	ltprune	08f9e1d9ee0af8f5d9a7854efbcd8c0e	multilib	b2f01ad412baf81650c23fcf0975fa33	preserve-libs	ef207dc62baddfddfd39a164d9797648	toolchain-funcs	f164325a2cdb5b3ea39311d483988861	vcs-clean	2a0f74a496fa2b1552c4f3398258b7bf
-_md5_=622bd785753b621d7210cf24cf074237
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/Manifest b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d067c094b..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST iotools-1.2.tar.gz 21514 SHA256 e4a961fea98c8e545982372732d486e8f118afa809da449816378a397d6be001 SHA512 fe52e28e2a1c5a039dccbd405e7e1eb1dcf1d2fd6584932379590bcffc92d65d0bf8827b716a3cd36bf6bf725619f7484d04d157a50b73bce3b76d031cc2ab54 WHIRLPOOL 3918e21d3dd9d8c895a4fe9c1dc13064df177aa03c321236c645f287d0b51bf200ca3b4f36b2cb6889aa4fe37d9aa42db3eee41146b19814ecc0b56e9ee724fb
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/files/iotools-1.2.nopie.patch b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/files/iotools-1.2.nopie.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index eef4b399e8..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/files/iotools-1.2.nopie.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur Makefile Makefile
---- Makefile	2009-04-09 12:33:32.000000000 -0700
-+++ Makefile	2010-05-14 15:14:25.000000000 -0700
-@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
- IOTOOLS_DEBUG = -O2 -DNDEBUG
- endif
- 
--CFLAGS = -Wall -Werror $(DEFS) $(ARCHFLAGS) $(IOTOOLS_STATIC) $(IOTOOLS_DEBUG)
-+CFLAGS = -Wall -Werror $(DEFS) $(ARCHFLAGS) $(IOTOOLS_STATIC) $(IOTOOLS_DEBUG) -nopie
- DEFS = -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVER_MAJOR=$(VER_MAJOR) -DVER_MINOR=$(VER_MINOR)
- SBINDIR ?= /usr/local/sbin
-
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/iotools-1.2-r2.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/iotools-1.2-r2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 02807619ee..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/iotools-1.2-r2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2010 Google Inc.
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: $
-
-inherit eutils toolchain-funcs
-
-DESCRIPTION="Simple commands to access hardware device registers"
-HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/iotools/"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="x86 amd64"
-IUSE="hardened"
-
-SRC_URI="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-src_compile() {
-	# If we are on hardened/x86, turn off PIE because the code uses %ebx
-	if use x86 ; then
-		if use hardened ; then
-			epatch "${FILESDIR}"/iotools-1.2.nopie.patch
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	emake CC="$(tc-getCC)" || die "emake failed"
-}
-
-IOTOOLS_COMMANDS="and btr bts busy_loop cmos_read cmos_write cpu_list \
-		  cpuid io_read16 io_read32 io_read8 io_write16 io_write32 \
-		  io_write8 mmio_dump mmio_read16 mmio_read32 mmio_read64 \
-		  mmio_read8 mmio_write16 mmio_write32 mmio_write64 \
-		  mmio_write8 not or pci_list pci_read16 pci_read32 pci_read8 \
-		  pci_write16 pci_write32 pci_write8 rdmsr rdtsc runon shl \
-		  shr smbus_quick smbus_read16 smbus_read8 smbus_readblock \
-		  smbus_receive_byte smbus_send_byte smbus_write16 \
-		  smbus_write8 smbus_writeblock wrmsr xor"
-
-src_install() {
-	dosbin iotools || die
-
-	echo "installing symbolic link shortcuts for iotools"
-	# Note: This is done manually because invoking the iotools binary
-	# when cross-compiling will likely fail.
-	cd "${D}/usr/sbin"
-	for COMMAND in ${IOTOOLS_COMMANDS} ; do
-		ln -s iotools ${COMMAND}
-	done
-}
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/metadata.xml b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c8fbb191c..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/iotools/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<maintainer>
- <email>vapier@gentoo.org</email>
-</maintainer>
-<use>
- <flag name='make-symlinks'>Generate sub-command symlinks to iotools -- note that a lot are simple like "xor"</flag>
-</use>
-</pkgmetadata>