diff --git a/boards/mulle/include/board.h b/boards/mulle/include/board.h
index 574fb0769..b2cf3ae28 100644
--- a/boards/mulle/include/board.h
+++ b/boards/mulle/include/board.h
@@ -32,12 +32,6 @@
 /** Disable hardware watchdog, for debugging purposes, don't use this on production builds. */
 #define DISABLE_WDOG    1
 
-/**
- * @name Assign the first hardware timer.
- * This timer will be used to implement an absolute reference for hwtimer_now() et al.
- */
-#define HW_TIMER            TIMER_0
-
 /**
  * @name Number of subsequent channels of the PIT to assign to the RIOT hardware
  * timer library, starting after the HW_TIMER above.