diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/freedreno/freedreno_screen.c b/src/gallium/drivers/freedreno/freedreno_screen.c
index b52526bbec5..11d9e0379b9 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/freedreno/freedreno_screen.c
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/freedreno/freedreno_screen.c
@@ -1191,10 +1191,6 @@ fd_screen_create(int fd,
    screen->dev_info = info;
    screen->info = &screen->dev_info;
 
-   /* HACK: disable lrz for now on a7xx: */
-   if (screen->gen == 7)
-      fd_mesa_debug |= FD_DBG_NOLRZ;
-
    /* explicitly checking for GPU revisions that are known to work.  This
     * may be overly conservative for a3xx, where spoofing the gpu_id with
     * the blob driver seems to generate identical cmdstream dumps.  But