diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4800f6884..84b633431 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -152,7 +152,6 @@ F: devtools/gen-abi.sh
 F: devtools/libabigail.abignore
 F: devtools/update-abi.sh
 F: devtools/update_version_map_abi.py
-F: devtools/validate-abi.sh
 F: buildtools/check-experimental-syms.sh
 F: buildtools/map-list-symbol.sh
 
diff --git a/devtools/validate-abi.sh b/devtools/validate-abi.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f64e19d38..000000000
--- a/devtools/validate-abi.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,251 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-# Copyright(c) 2015 Neil Horman. All rights reserved.
-# Copyright(c) 2017 6WIND S.A.
-# All rights reserved
-
-set -e
-
-abicheck=abi-compliance-checker
-abidump=abi-dumper
-default_dst=abi-check
-default_target=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
-
-# trap on error
-err_report() {
-    echo "$0: error at line $1"
-}
-trap 'err_report $LINENO' ERR
-
-print_usage () {
-	cat <<- END_OF_HELP
-	$(basename $0) [options] <rev1> <rev2>
-
-	This script compares the ABI of 2 git revisions of the current
-	workspace. The output is a html report and a compilation log.
-
-	The objective is to make sure that applications built against
-	DSOs from the first revision can still run when executed using
-	the DSOs built from the second revision.
-
-	<rev1> and <rev2> are git commit id or tags.
-
-	Options:
-	  -h		show this help
-	  -j <num>	enable parallel compilation with <num> threads
-	  -v		show compilation logs on the console
-	  -d <dir>	change working directory (default is ${default_dst})
-	  -t <target>	the dpdk target to use (default is ${default_target})
-	  -f		overwrite existing files in destination directory
-
-	The script returns 0 on success, or the value of last failing
-	call of ${abicheck} (incompatible abi or the tool has run with errors).
-	The errors returned by ${abidump} are ignored.
-
-	END_OF_HELP
-}
-
-# log in the file, and on stdout if verbose
-# $1: level string
-# $2: string to be logged
-log() {
-	echo "$1: $2"
-	if [ "${verbose}" != "true" ]; then
-		echo "$1: $2" >&3
-	fi
-}
-
-# launch a command and log it, taking care of surrounding spaces with quotes
-cmd() {
-	local i s whitespace ret
-	s=""
-	whitespace="[[:space:]]"
-	for i in "$@"; do
-		if [[ $i =~ $whitespace ]]; then
-			i=\"$i\"
-		fi
-		if [ -z "$s" ]; then
-			s="$i"
-		else
-			s="$s $i"
-		fi
-	done
-
-	ret=0
-	log "CMD" "$s"
-	"$@" || ret=$?
-	if [ "$ret" != "0" ]; then
-		log "CMD" "previous command returned $ret"
-	fi
-
-	return $ret
-}
-
-# redirect or copy stderr/stdout to a file
-# the syntax is unfamiliar, but it makes the rest of the
-# code easier to read, avoiding the use of pipes
-set_log_file() {
-	# save original stdout and stderr in fd 3 and 4
-	exec 3>&1
-	exec 4>&2
-	# create a new fd 5 that send to a file
-	exec 5> >(cat > $1)
-	# send stdout and stderr to fd 5
-	if [ "${verbose}" = "true" ]; then
-		exec 1> >(tee /dev/fd/5 >&3)
-		exec 2> >(tee /dev/fd/5 >&4)
-	else
-		exec 1>&5
-		exec 2>&5
-	fi
-}
-
-# Make sure we configure SHARED libraries
-# Also turn off IGB and KNI as those require kernel headers to build
-fixup_config() {
-	local conf=config/defconfig_$target
-	cmd sed -i -e"$ a\CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=y" $conf
-	cmd sed -i -e"$ a\CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI=n" $conf
-	cmd sed -i -e"$ a\CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=n" $conf
-	cmd sed -i -e"$ a\CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_KNI=n" $conf
-	cmd sed -i -e"$ a\CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD=n" $conf
-}
-
-# build dpdk for the given tag and dump abi
-# $1: hash of the revision
-gen_abi() {
-	local i
-
-	cmd git clone ${dpdkroot} ${dst}/${1}
-	cmd cd ${dst}/${1}
-
-	log "INFO" "Checking out version ${1} of the dpdk"
-	# Move to the old version of the tree
-	cmd git checkout ${1}
-
-	fixup_config
-
-	# Now configure the build
-	log "INFO" "Configuring DPDK ${1}"
-	cmd make config T=$target O=$target
-
-	# Checking abi compliance relies on using the dwarf information in
-	# the shared objects. Build with -g to include them.
-	log "INFO" "Building DPDK ${1}. This might take a moment"
-	cmd make -j$parallel O=$target V=1 EXTRA_CFLAGS="-g -Og -Wno-error" \
-	    EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-g" || log "INFO" "The build failed"
-
-	# Move to the lib directory
-	cmd cd ${PWD}/$target/lib
-	log "INFO" "Collecting ABI information for ${1}"
-	for i in *.so; do
-		[ -e "$i" ] || break
-		cmd $abidump ${i} -o $dst/${1}/${i}.dump -lver ${1} || true
-		# hack to ignore empty SymbolsInfo section (no public ABI)
-		if grep -q "'SymbolInfo' => {}," $dst/${1}/${i}.dump \
-				2> /dev/null; then
-			log "INFO" "${i} has no public ABI, remove dump file"
-			cmd rm -f $dst/${1}/${i}.dump
-		fi
-	done
-}
-
-verbose=false
-parallel=1
-dst=${default_dst}
-target=${default_target}
-force=0
-while getopts j:vd:t:fh ARG ; do
-	case $ARG in
-		j ) parallel=$OPTARG ;;
-		v ) verbose=true ;;
-		d ) dst=$OPTARG ;;
-		t ) target=$OPTARG ;;
-		f ) force=1 ;;
-		h ) print_usage ; exit 0 ;;
-		? ) print_usage ; exit 1 ;;
-	esac
-done
-shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
-
-if [ $# != 2 ]; then
-	print_usage
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-tag1=$1
-tag2=$2
-
-# convert path to absolute
-case "${dst}" in
-	/*) ;;
-	*) dst=${PWD}/${dst} ;;
-esac
-dpdkroot=$(readlink -f $(dirname $0)/..)
-
-if [ -e "${dst}" -a "$force" = 0 ]; then
-	echo "The ${dst} directory is not empty. Remove it, use another"
-	echo "one (-d <dir>), or force overriding (-f)"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-rm -rf ${dst}
-mkdir -p ${dst}
-set_log_file ${dst}/abi-check.log
-log "INFO" "Logs available in ${dst}/abi-check.log"
-
-command -v ${abicheck} || log "INFO" "Can't find ${abicheck} utility"
-command -v ${abidump} || log "INFO" "Can't find ${abidump} utility"
-
-hash1=$(git show -s --format=%h "$tag1" -- 2> /dev/null | tail -1)
-hash2=$(git show -s --format=%h "$tag2" -- 2> /dev/null | tail -1)
-
-# Make hashes available in output for non-local reference
-tag1="$tag1 ($hash1)"
-tag2="$tag2 ($hash2)"
-
-if [ "$hash1" = "$hash2" ]; then
-	log "ERROR" "$tag1 and $tag2 are the same revisions"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-cmd mkdir -p ${dst}
-
-# dump abi for each revision
-gen_abi ${hash1}
-gen_abi ${hash2}
-
-# compare the abi dumps
-cmd cd ${dst}
-ret=0
-list=""
-for i in ${hash2}/*.dump; do
-	name=`basename $i`
-	libname=${name%.dump}
-
-	if [ ! -f ${hash1}/$name ]; then
-		log "INFO" "$NAME does not exist in $tag1. skipping..."
-		continue
-	fi
-
-	local_ret=0
-	cmd $abicheck -l $libname \
-	    -old ${hash1}/$name -new ${hash2}/$name || local_ret=$?
-	if [ $local_ret != 0 ]; then
-		log "NOTICE" "$abicheck returned $local_ret"
-		ret=$local_ret
-		list="$list $libname"
-	fi
-done
-
-if [ $ret != 0 ]; then
-	log "NOTICE" "ABI may be incompatible, check reports/logs for details."
-	log "NOTICE" "Incompatible list: $list"
-else
-	log "NOTICE" "No error detected, ABI is compatible."
-fi
-
-log "INFO" "Logs are in ${dst}/abi-check.log"
-log "INFO" "HTML reports are in ${dst}/compat_reports directory"
-
-exit $ret
diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.rst
index a21f4e7a4..1c4a3f927 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.rst
@@ -482,9 +482,9 @@ Running the ABI Validator
 -------------------------
 
 The ``devtools`` directory in the DPDK source tree contains a utility program,
-``validate-abi.sh``, for validating the DPDK ABI based on the Linux `ABI
-Compliance Checker
-<http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker>`_.
+``check-abi.sh``, for validating the DPDK ABI based on the libabigail abidiff
+utility:
+https://sourceware.org/libabigail/manual/abidiff.html 
 
 This has a dependency on the ``abi-compliance-checker`` and ``and abi-dumper``
 utilities which can be installed via a package manager. For example::
@@ -492,9 +492,9 @@ utilities which can be installed via a package manager. For example::
    sudo yum install abi-compliance-checker
    sudo yum install abi-dumper
 
-The syntax of the ``validate-abi.sh`` utility is::
+The syntax of the ``check-abi.sh`` utility is::
 
-   ./devtools/validate-abi.sh <REV1> <REV2>
+   ./devtools/check-abi.sh <REV1> <REV2>
 
 Where ``REV1`` and ``REV2`` are valid gitrevisions(7)
 https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitrevisions.html
@@ -503,16 +503,16 @@ on the local repo.
 For example::
 
    # Check between the previous and latest commit:
-   ./devtools/validate-abi.sh HEAD~1 HEAD
+   ./devtools/check-abi.sh HEAD~1 HEAD
 
    # Check on a specific compilation target:
-   ./devtools/validate-abi.sh -t x86_64-native-linux-gcc HEAD~1 HEAD
+   ./devtools/check-abi.sh -t x86_64-native-linux-gcc HEAD~1 HEAD
 
    # Check between two tags:
-   ./devtools/validate-abi.sh v2.0.0 v2.1.0
+   ./devtools/check-abi.sh v2.0.0 v2.1.0
 
    # Check between git master and local topic-branch "vhost-hacking":
-   ./devtools/validate-abi.sh master vhost-hacking
+   ./devtools/check-abi.sh master vhost-hacking
 
 After the validation script completes (it can take a while since it need to
 compile both tags) it will create compatibility reports in the
