realtek: phy: drop internal RTL8218B firmware
authorMarkus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@gmx.de>
Thu, 5 Feb 2026 18:45:22 +0000 (19:45 +0100)
committerHauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Sat, 7 Feb 2026 16:39:38 +0000 (17:39 +0100)
commit27a2cbedf3b4bc8bf205ab6fadab06252a5fc245
tree6383a461e6359068bfce2e1074493cb53255f7cf
parentb4759469c99ba2cd66a36b3d90daf42bfa007073
realtek: phy: drop internal RTL8218B firmware

The phy driver still uses the ancient unknown firmware file format
for the internal RTL8218B of the RTL838x. Get rid of that and
convert the initialization to the bare minimum.

Signed-off-by: Markus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@gmx.de>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/21885
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
target/linux/realtek/files-6.12/drivers/net/phy/rtl83xx-phy.c
target/linux/realtek/files-6.12/drivers/net/phy/rtl83xx-phy.h [deleted file]
target/linux/realtek/files/firmware/rtl838x_phy/rtl838x_8380.fw [deleted file]
target/linux/realtek/rtl838x/config-6.12