diff --git a/target/linux/ramips/base-files/lib/preinit/01_preinit_do_ramips.sh b/target/linux/ramips/base-files/lib/preinit/01_preinit_do_ramips.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 31ef5f81467d5e64a2b54d129f6a5f4dd3d7da86..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/target/linux/ramips/base-files/lib/preinit/01_preinit_do_ramips.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-do_ramips() {
-	. /lib/ramips.sh
-
-	ramips_board_detect
-}
-
-boot_hook_add preinit_main do_ramips
diff --git a/target/linux/ramips/base-files/lib/preinit/07_set_preinit_iface_ramips b/target/linux/ramips/base-files/lib/preinit/07_set_preinit_iface_ramips
index 5048dacb4f49aa57e67d527daa88ecee1d686e4e..a395956d04f3164b8ee6df27e390d4150c7551b9 100644
--- a/target/linux/ramips/base-files/lib/preinit/07_set_preinit_iface_ramips
+++ b/target/linux/ramips/base-files/lib/preinit/07_set_preinit_iface_ramips
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2013 OpenWrt.org
 #
 
-. /lib/ramips.sh
-
 ramips_set_preinit_iface() {
 	RT3X5X=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep "(RT3.5|RT5350|MT7628|MT7688|MT7620|MT7621)"`
 
diff --git a/target/linux/ramips/base-files/lib/ramips.sh b/target/linux/ramips/base-files/lib/ramips.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 53fc7c30db515c22062a54617526bea000341dee..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/target/linux/ramips/base-files/lib/ramips.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2010-2013 OpenWrt.org
-#
-
-ramips_board_detect() {
-	local machine
-	local name
-
-	machine=$(awk 'BEGIN{FS="[ \t]+:[ \t]"} /machine/ {print $2}' /proc/cpuinfo)
-
-	case "$machine" in
-	*"MT7688 evaluation"*)
-		name="mt7688"
-		;;
-	esac
-
-	# use generic board detect if no name is set
-	[ -z "$name" ] && return
-
-	[ -e "/tmp/sysinfo/" ] || mkdir -p "/tmp/sysinfo/"
-
-	echo "$name" > /tmp/sysinfo/board_name
-	echo "$machine" > /tmp/sysinfo/model
-}