diff --git a/include/core/SkPixelRef.h b/include/core/SkPixelRef.h
index 9aa1b71144..2677e5f22d 100644
--- a/include/core/SkPixelRef.h
+++ b/include/core/SkPixelRef.h
@@ -206,10 +206,6 @@ public:
 
     bool requestLock(const LockRequest&, LockResult*);
 
-    /** Are we really wrapping a texture instead of a bitmap?
-     */
-    virtual GrTexture* getTexture() { return NULL; }
-
     /**
      *  If this can efficiently return YUV data, this should return true.
      *  Otherwise this returns false and does not modify any of the parameters.
diff --git a/src/core/SkBitmapDevice.cpp b/src/core/SkBitmapDevice.cpp
index 75eaa963b5..3f3e5fd84e 100644
--- a/src/core/SkBitmapDevice.cpp
+++ b/src/core/SkBitmapDevice.cpp
@@ -281,14 +281,8 @@ void SkBitmapDevice::drawBitmapRect(const SkDraw& draw, const SkBitmap& bitmap,
         // since we may need to clamp to the borders of the src rect within
         // the bitmap, we extract a subset.
         const SkIRect srcIR = tmpSrc.roundOut();
-        if(bitmap.pixelRef()->getTexture()) {
-            // Accelerated source canvas, don't use extractSubset but readPixels to get the subset.
-            // This way, the pixels are copied in CPU memory instead of GPU memory.
-            bitmap.pixelRef()->readPixels(&tmpBitmap, kN32_SkColorType, &srcIR);
-        } else {
-            if (!bitmap.extractSubset(&tmpBitmap, srcIR)) {
-                return;
-            }
+        if (!bitmap.extractSubset(&tmpBitmap, srcIR)) {
+            return;
         }
         bitmapPtr = &tmpBitmap;
 
diff --git a/src/core/SkImagePriv.h b/src/core/SkImagePriv.h
index 0377762def..8e2f5cecde 100644
--- a/src/core/SkImagePriv.h
+++ b/src/core/SkImagePriv.h
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ extern void SkTextureImageApplyBudgetedDecision(SkImage* textureImage);
 // surface needs to perform a copy-on-write
 extern void SkTextureImageSetTexture(SkImage* image, GrTexture* texture);
 
-GrTexture* GrDeepCopyTexture(GrTexture* src, SkBudgeted);
-
 /**
  *  Will attempt to upload and lock the contents of the image as a texture, so that subsequent
  *  draws to a gpu-target will come from that texture (and not by looking at the original image
diff --git a/src/image/SkImage.cpp b/src/image/SkImage.cpp
index fa3580c175..6a301c3f24 100644
--- a/src/image/SkImage.cpp
+++ b/src/image/SkImage.cpp
@@ -296,23 +296,6 @@ sk_sp<SkImage> SkImage::MakeFromBitmap(const SkBitmap& bm) {
         return nullptr;
     }
 
-#if SK_SUPPORT_GPU
-    if (GrTexture* tex = pr->getTexture()) {
-        SkAutoTUnref<GrTexture> unrefCopy;
-        if (!bm.isImmutable()) {
-            tex = GrDeepCopyTexture(tex, SkBudgeted::kNo);
-            if (nullptr == tex) {
-                return nullptr;
-            }
-            unrefCopy.reset(tex);
-        }
-        const SkImageInfo info = bm.info();
-        return sk_make_sp<SkImage_Gpu>(info.width(), info.height(), bm.getGenerationID(),
-                                       info.alphaType(), tex, sk_ref_sp(info.colorSpace()),
-                                       SkBudgeted::kNo);
-    }
-#endif
-
     return SkMakeImageFromRasterBitmap(bm, kIfMutable_SkCopyPixelsMode);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/image/SkImage_Gpu.cpp b/src/image/SkImage_Gpu.cpp
index 6b7416b26b..53765b15a2 100644
--- a/src/image/SkImage_Gpu.cpp
+++ b/src/image/SkImage_Gpu.cpp
@@ -540,22 +540,6 @@ sk_sp<SkImage> SkImage::MakeFromDeferredTextureImageData(GrContext* context, con
 
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
-GrTexture* GrDeepCopyTexture(GrTexture* src, SkBudgeted budgeted) {
-    GrContext* ctx = src->getContext();
-
-    GrSurfaceDesc desc = src->desc();
-    GrTexture* dst = ctx->textureProvider()->createTexture(desc, budgeted, nullptr, 0);
-    if (!dst) {
-        return nullptr;
-    }
-
-    const SkIRect srcR = SkIRect::MakeWH(desc.fWidth, desc.fHeight);
-    const SkIPoint dstP = SkIPoint::Make(0, 0);
-    ctx->copySurface(dst, src, srcR, dstP);
-    ctx->flushSurfaceWrites(dst);
-    return dst;
-}
-
 sk_sp<SkImage> SkImage::MakeTextureFromMipMap(GrContext* ctx, const SkImageInfo& info,
                                               const GrMipLevel* texels, int mipLevelCount,
                                               SkBudgeted budgeted) {