diff --git a/board/emulation/qemu-x86/Makefile b/board/emulation/qemu-x86/Makefile
index 782e298b74c..ff4aaa51c54 100644
--- a/board/emulation/qemu-x86/Makefile
+++ b/board/emulation/qemu-x86/Makefile
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2015, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
 
-obj-y	+= start.o
+obj-y	+= qemu-x86.o
diff --git a/board/emulation/qemu-x86/qemu-x86.c b/board/emulation/qemu-x86/qemu-x86.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/board/emulation/qemu-x86/start.S b/board/emulation/qemu-x86/start.S
deleted file mode 100644
index e4bde561b20..00000000000
--- a/board/emulation/qemu-x86/start.S
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2015, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
- */
-
-.globl early_board_init
-early_board_init:
-	jmp	early_board_init_ret