{"id":270088,"date":"2026-06-11T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/airoha-an8801r-gigabit-ethernet-phy-driver-coming-to-linux-7-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:51:58","slug":"airoha-an8801r-gigabit-ethernet-phy-driver-coming-to-linux-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/airoha-an8801r-gigabit-ethernet-phy-driver-coming-to-linux-7-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY Driver Coming To Linux 7.2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY Driver Coming To Linux 7.2<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Airoha-N8801R-Linux-7.2<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-11 05:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY.<\/p>\n

The Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY is found on some boards such as the Mediatek Genio 720-EVK development kit. Louis-Alexis Eyraud and AngeloGioacchino Del Regno, both of Collabora, took to developing the “air_an8801” PHY driver for supporting this chip. This driver is based on a downstream kernel driver written by Airoha Technology that appears in Mediatek’s vendor kernel derived from Linux 6.6.
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Airoha promotes the AN8801R as a low-power, highly-integrated single-port Ethernet PHY transciever. This AN8801R PHY is geared for Ethernet switches, routers\/gateways, set top boxes, smart TVs, game consoles, and more.<\/p>\n

This new Gigabit Ethernet PHY driver was recently queued in net-next.git. With the driver being in the net-next code, it will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window. Enabling the new driver is gated by the new AIR_AN8801_PHY Kconfig option.<\/p>\n

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