diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index dd2959e86..fa33d571c 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2013-03-29</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Remove notes about enabling LTO support; both GCC
+          and Binutils enable it by default now.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Add texinfo related seds to Binutils pass1 and pass2
           as hosts may have a new enough version of Texinfo to cause
diff --git a/chapter06/binutils.xml b/chapter06/binutils.xml
index e7194d81c..65f72a8f3 100644
--- a/chapter06/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/binutils.xml
@@ -80,13 +80,6 @@ cd ../binutils-build</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared</userinput></screen>
 
-    <note><para>There is an optional argument to <command>configure</command>,
-    <option>--enable-lto</option>, that can be used to allow the
-    <command>ar</command>, <command>nm</command>, and <command>ranlib</command>
-    commands to accept a <option>--plugin</option> parameter.  This is used to
-    allow <command>gcc</command> to do "link time optimization" if specified.
-    No packages in LFS or BLFS currently use this capability.</para></note>
-
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make tooldir=/usr</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/chapter06/gcc.xml b/chapter06/gcc.xml
index 011692cc0..1f844f1a0 100644
--- a/chapter06/gcc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gcc.xml
@@ -104,16 +104,6 @@ cd ../gcc-build</userinput></screen>
       </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
 
-    <note>
-      <para>There is an optional argument to <command>configure</command>,
-      <option>--enable-lto</option>, that can be used to allow
-      <command>gcc</command> to do do "link time optimization" if specified.  No
-      packages in LFS or BLFS currently use this capability.</para>
-
-      <para>To use this feature, it must also be enabled in
-      <application>binutils</application>.</para>
-    </note>
-
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>