diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index b78b66ce5..43c847d6d 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -647,8 +647,6 @@ void setup()
     rp2040Setup();
 #endif
 
-    initSPI(); // needed here before reading from littleFS
-
     // We do this as early as possible because this loads preferences from flash
     // but we need to do this after main cpu init (esp32setup), because we need the random seed set
     nodeDB = new NodeDB;