diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index b851af2017b5..9af0e1516ce8 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -145,6 +145,15 @@ endif
 ###############################################################################
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2017.08"
 
+config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH
+	bool "SH Sourcery toolchain has been removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  The Sourcery CodeBench toolchain for the sh architecture has
+	  been removed, since it uses glibc older than 2.17 that requires
+	  -lrt to link executables using clock_* system calls. This makes
+	  this toolchain difficult to maintain over time.
+
 config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_X86
 	bool "x86 Sourcery toolchain has been removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in b/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in
index 75229bbddf47..4cd9ee4752cd 100644
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codescape-mti-mips/Confi
 # NIOSII
 source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-niosII/Config.in"
 
-# SH4a
-source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/Config.in"
-
 # x86_64
 source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-amd64/Config.in"
 
@@ -126,9 +123,6 @@ source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codescape-mti-mips/Confi
 # NIOSII
 source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-niosII/Config.in.options"
 
-# SH4a
-source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/Config.in.options"
-
 # x86_64
 source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-amd64/Config.in.options"
 
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/Config.in b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644
index a47dab7611f9..000000000000
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH
-	bool "Sourcery CodeBench SH 2012.09"
-	depends on BR2_sh4a || BR2_sh4aeb
-	depends on BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86_64" || BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86"
-	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SSP
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC
-	select BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
-	select BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_LIBS
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_5
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_7
-	help
-	  Sourcery CodeBench toolchain for the SuperH architecture,
-	  from Mentor Graphics. It uses gcc 4.7.2, binutils 2.23.51,
-	  glibc 2.16, uClibc 0.9.30, gdb 7.4.50 and kernel headers
-	  3.5.4. It has support for the following variants:
-	    - SH4A, glibc, little endian
-	      Default.
-	    - SH4A, glibc, big endian
-	      Add -mb to BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION
-	    - SH4A, uClibc, little endian
-	      Not usable in Buildroot yet.
-	    - SH4A, uClibc, big endian
-	      Not usable in Buildroot yet.
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/Config.in.options b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/Config.in.options
deleted file mode 100644
index 90061cef49fd..000000000000
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/Config.in.options
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH
-
-config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX
-	default "sh-linux-gnu"
-
-config BR2_PACKAGE_PROVIDES_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL
-	default "toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh"
-
-endif
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh.hash b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh.hash
deleted file mode 100644
index ff2ba5f473c4..000000000000
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Locally calculated
-sha256 59d6766fde244931aa52db01433d5acd051998762a931121c5fc109536a1a802  renesas-2012.09-61-sh-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
-sha256 e2e58c10e52395d5d35157e35f85233f713c6f9223a652dfc56194cfd2eed004  renesas-2012.09-61-sh-linux-gnu.src.tar.bz2
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh.mk b/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 5370bb22a820..000000000000
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh/toolchain-external-codesourcery-sh.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# toolchain-external-sourcery-sh
-#
-################################################################################
-
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH_VERSION = 2012.09-61
-
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH_SITE = https://sourcery.mentor.com/public/gnu_toolchain/$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH_SOURCE = renesas-$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH_VERSION)-$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX)-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH_ACTUAL_SOURCE_TARBALL = renesas-$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CODESOURCERY_SH_VERSION)-$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX).src.tar.bz2
-
-$(eval $(toolchain-external-package))
