diff --git a/src/gui/opengl/platform/egl/qeglpbuffer.cpp b/src/gui/opengl/platform/egl/qeglpbuffer.cpp
index 55e199a6ad..7cc1111ab5 100644
--- a/src/gui/opengl/platform/egl/qeglpbuffer.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/opengl/platform/egl/qeglpbuffer.cpp
@@ -65,15 +65,6 @@ QEGLPbuffer::QEGLPbuffer(EGLDisplay display, const QSurfaceFormat &format, QOffs
     m_hasSurfaceless = !flags.testFlag(QEGLPlatformContext::NoSurfaceless)
         && q_hasEglExtension(display, "EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context");
 
-    // Disable surfaceless contexts on Mesa for now. As of 10.6.0 and Intel at least, some
-    // operations (glReadPixels) are unable to work without a surface since they at some
-    // point temporarily unbind the current FBO and then later blow up in some seemingly
-    // safe operations, like setting the viewport, that apparently need access to the
-    // read/draw surface in the Intel backend.
-    const char *vendor = eglQueryString(display, EGL_VENDOR); // hard to check for GL_ strings here, so blacklist all Mesa
-    if (vendor && strstr(vendor, "Mesa"))
-        m_hasSurfaceless = false;
-
     if (m_hasSurfaceless)
         return;