The functionality/support for 5G and 10G PHYs was extracted from the
realtek-phy driver and ported to the upstream Linux realtek PHY driver.
These PHY chips need a sequence of register writes (and similar operations)
for initialization. These sequences are provided as firmware files which
are interpreted/applied by a new register patch engine.
By switching to the upstream driver, it should be possible to get rid of a
large chunk of (from OpenWrt perspective) unmaintained code from Realtek.
The actual Linux phy-core infrastructure from Linux can be mostly used and
only the Realtek specific quirks need to be handled.
The files which need to be provided are depending on the PHY:
* rtl8261n.bin (package "rtl8261n-firmware" or "rtl8261n-lp-firmware")
- RTL8251L 5Gbps PHY
- RTL8261BE 10Gbps PHY
- RTL8261N 10Gbps PHY
* rtl8264b.bin (package "rtl8264b-firmware")
- RTL8254B 5Gbps PHY
- RTL8264 10Gbps PHY
- RTL8264B 10Gbps PHY
Files which are affected by this change (DEVICE_PACKAGES dependencies,
hwmon paths, default kernel configurations, refresh of patches, ...) are
updated at the same times.
Signed-off-by: Balázs Triszka <info@balika011.hu>
Co-authored-by: Semih Baskan <strst.gs@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Gilly1970 <gilroyscott@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksander Jan Bajkowski <olek2@wp.pl>
Co-authored-by: Carlo Szelinsky <github@szelinsky.de>
[sven: rebase, integrate suggestions from PR, add device packages, split]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
[daniel: stripped to Linux 6.18 only, dropped unrelated changes]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
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