diff --git a/doc/source/airsloop.rst b/doc/source/airsloop.rst
index 768a480cc..f0e027d5a 100644
--- a/doc/source/airsloop.rst
+++ b/doc/source/airsloop.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ Various resiliency and security features are tuned down via configuration.
    with VLANs for OAM, Calico, Storage, and OpenStack Overlay).
  * Generic hostnames used (airsloop-control-1, airsloop-compute-1) that
    simplifies generation of k8s certificates.
- * Usage of standard Ubuntu 16.04 GA kernel (as oppose to HWE).
 
 
 Airsloop site manifests are available at
diff --git a/site/airsloop/profiles/host/compute.yaml b/site/airsloop/profiles/host/compute.yaml
index 9943b9af9..2496d06d9 100644
--- a/site/airsloop/profiles/host/compute.yaml
+++ b/site/airsloop/profiles/host/compute.yaml
@@ -71,10 +71,4 @@ data:
               mountpoint: '/var'
               fstype: 'ext4'
               mount_options: 'defaults'
-
-  platform:
-    image: 'xenial'
-    kernel: 'ga-16.04'
-    kernel_params:
-      kernel_package: 'linux-image-4.4.0-137-generic'
 ...