diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-apple/board.c b/arch/arm/mach-apple/board.c
index 213390d6e8..0b6d290b8a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-apple/board.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-apple/board.c
@@ -775,8 +775,6 @@ int board_late_init(void)
 {
 	u32 status = 0;
 
-	lmb_init_and_reserve(gd->bd, (void *)gd->fdt_blob);
-
 	/* somewhat based on the Linux Kernel boot requirements:
 	 * align by 2M and maximal FDT size 2M
 	 */
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/board.c b/arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/board.c
index a63c8bec45..22a7d2a637 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/board.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/board.c
@@ -282,8 +282,6 @@ int board_late_init(void)
 {
 	u32 status = 0;
 
-	lmb_init_and_reserve(gd->bd, (void *)gd->fdt_blob);
-
 	/* We need to be fairly conservative here as we support boards with just 1G of TOTAL RAM */
 	status |= env_set_hex("kernel_addr_r", addr_alloc(SZ_128M));
 	status |= env_set_hex("ramdisk_addr_r", addr_alloc(SZ_128M));
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-stm32mp/stm32mp1/cpu.c b/arch/arm/mach-stm32mp/stm32mp1/cpu.c
index a913737342..64480da9f8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-stm32mp/stm32mp1/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-stm32mp/stm32mp1/cpu.c
@@ -141,9 +141,6 @@ int mach_cpu_init(void)
 
 void enable_caches(void)
 {
-	/* parse device tree when data cache is still activated */
-	lmb_init_and_reserve(gd->bd, (void *)gd->fdt_blob);
-
 	/* I-cache is already enabled in start.S: icache_enable() not needed */
 
 	/* deactivate the data cache, early enabled in arch_cpu_init() */
diff --git a/cmd/bdinfo.c b/cmd/bdinfo.c
index b31e0208df..3c40dee143 100644
--- a/cmd/bdinfo.c
+++ b/cmd/bdinfo.c
@@ -162,7 +162,6 @@ static int bdinfo_print_all(struct bd_info *bd)
 	bdinfo_print_num_l("multi_dtb_fit", (ulong)gd->multi_dtb_fit);
 #endif
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LMB) && gd->fdt_blob) {
-		lmb_init_and_reserve(gd->bd, (void *)gd->fdt_blob);
 		lmb_dump_all_force();
 		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_REAL))
 			printf("devicetree  = %s\n", fdtdec_get_srcname());
diff --git a/cmd/load.c b/cmd/load.c
index b4e747f966..29cc98ff37 100644
--- a/cmd/load.c
+++ b/cmd/load.c
@@ -153,8 +153,6 @@ static ulong load_serial(long offset)
 	int	line_count =  0;
 	long ret;
 
-	lmb_init_and_reserve(gd->bd, (void *)gd->fdt_blob);
-
 	while (read_record(record, SREC_MAXRECLEN + 1) >= 0) {
 		type = srec_decode(record, &binlen, &addr, binbuf);
 
diff --git a/fs/fs.c b/fs/fs.c
index 3fb00590be..4bc28d1dff 100644
--- a/fs/fs.c
+++ b/fs/fs.c
@@ -549,7 +549,6 @@ static int fs_read_lmb_check(const char *filename, ulong addr, loff_t offset,
 	if (len && len < read_len)
 		read_len = len;
 
-	lmb_init_and_reserve(gd->bd, (void *)gd->fdt_blob);
 	lmb_dump_all();
 
 	if (lmb_alloc_addr(addr, read_len) == addr)
diff --git a/lib/lmb.c b/lib/lmb.c
index e4733b82ac..e1dde14a3c 100644
--- a/lib/lmb.c
+++ b/lib/lmb.c
@@ -226,19 +226,6 @@ static void lmb_reserve_common(void *fdt_blob)
 		efi_lmb_reserve();
 }
 
-/* Initialize the struct, add memory and call arch/board reserve functions */
-void lmb_init_and_reserve(struct bd_info *bd, void *fdt_blob)
-{
-	int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS; i++) {
-		if (bd->bi_dram[i].size)
-			lmb_add(bd->bi_dram[i].start, bd->bi_dram[i].size);
-	}
-
-	lmb_reserve_common(fdt_blob);
-}
-
 /**
  * lmb_add_memory() - Add memory range for LMB allocations
  *
diff --git a/net/tftp.c b/net/tftp.c
index 5c75d9d04f..dfbc620c73 100644
--- a/net/tftp.c
+++ b/net/tftp.c
@@ -713,8 +713,6 @@ static int tftp_init_load_addr(void)
 #if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(LMB)
 	phys_size_t max_size;
 
-	lmb_init_and_reserve(gd->bd, (void *)gd->fdt_blob);
-
 	max_size = lmb_get_free_size(image_load_addr);
 	if (!max_size)
 		return -1;
diff --git a/net/wget.c b/net/wget.c
index b8ea43e7f0..82a7e30ea7 100644
--- a/net/wget.c
+++ b/net/wget.c
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ static int wget_init_load_size(void)
 {
 	phys_size_t max_size;
 
-	lmb_init_and_reserve(gd->bd, (void *)gd->fdt_blob);
-
 	max_size = lmb_get_free_size(image_load_addr);
 	if (!max_size)
 		return -1;
diff --git a/test/cmd/bdinfo.c b/test/cmd/bdinfo.c
index 34d2b141d8..1cd81a195b 100644
--- a/test/cmd/bdinfo.c
+++ b/test/cmd/bdinfo.c
@@ -113,14 +113,6 @@ static int lmb_test_dump_region(struct unit_test_state *uts,
 		end = base + size - 1;
 		flags = rgn->region[i].flags;
 
-		/*
-		 * this entry includes the stack (get_sp()) on many platforms
-		 * so will different each time lmb_init_and_reserve() is called.
-		 * We could instead have the bdinfo command put its lmb region
-		 * in a known location, so we can check it directly, rather than
-		 * calling lmb_init_and_reserve() to create a new (and hopefully
-		 * identical one). But for now this seems good enough.
-		 */
 		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SANDBOX) && i == 3) {
 			ut_assert_nextlinen(" %s[%d]\t[", name, i);
 			continue;
@@ -200,7 +192,6 @@ static int bdinfo_test_all(struct unit_test_state *uts)
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LMB) && gd->fdt_blob) {
 		struct lmb lmb;
 
-		lmb_init_and_reserve(gd->bd, (void *)gd->fdt_blob);
 		ut_assertok(lmb_test_dump_all(uts, &lmb));
 		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_REAL))
 			ut_assert_nextline("devicetree  = %s", fdtdec_get_srcname());
