diff --git a/ports/unix/variants/coverage/mpconfigvariant.h b/ports/unix/variants/coverage/mpconfigvariant.h
index 942117608f..f033dddb10 100644
--- a/ports/unix/variants/coverage/mpconfigvariant.h
+++ b/ports/unix/variants/coverage/mpconfigvariant.h
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 #define MICROPY_PY_MATH_FACTORIAL      (1)
 #define MICROPY_PY_URANDOM_EXTRA_FUNCS (1)
 #define MICROPY_PY_IO_BUFFEREDWRITER (1)
-#define MICROPY_PY_IO_RESOURCE_STREAM (1)
 #define MICROPY_PY_UASYNCIO            (1)
 #define MICROPY_PY_URE_DEBUG           (1)
 #define MICROPY_PY_URE_MATCH_GROUPS    (1)
diff --git a/py/modio.c b/py/modio.c
index 7f0d13cdfa..e79d59e4e5 100644
--- a/py/modio.c
+++ b/py/modio.c
@@ -204,50 +204,6 @@ STATIC const mp_obj_type_t mp_type_bufwriter = {
 };
 #endif // MICROPY_PY_IO_BUFFEREDWRITER
 
-#if MICROPY_PY_IO_RESOURCE_STREAM
-STATIC mp_obj_t resource_stream(mp_obj_t package_in, mp_obj_t path_in) {
-    VSTR_FIXED(path_buf, MICROPY_ALLOC_PATH_MAX);
-    size_t len;
-
-    // As an extension to pkg_resources.resource_stream(), we support
-    // package parameter being None, the path_in is interpreted as a
-    // raw path.
-    if (package_in != mp_const_none) {
-        // Pass "True" as sentinel value in fromlist to force returning of leaf module
-        mp_obj_t pkg = mp_import_name(mp_obj_str_get_qstr(package_in), mp_const_true, MP_OBJ_NEW_SMALL_INT(0));
-
-        mp_obj_t dest[2];
-        mp_load_method_maybe(pkg, MP_QSTR___path__, dest);
-        if (dest[0] == MP_OBJ_NULL) {
-            mp_raise_TypeError(NULL);
-        }
-
-        const char *path = mp_obj_str_get_data(dest[0], &len);
-        vstr_add_strn(&path_buf, path, len);
-        vstr_add_byte(&path_buf, '/');
-    }
-
-    const char *path = mp_obj_str_get_data(path_in, &len);
-    vstr_add_strn(&path_buf, path, len);
-
-    len = path_buf.len;
-    const char *data = mp_find_frozen_str(path_buf.buf, &len);
-    if (data != NULL) {
-        mp_obj_stringio_t *o = m_new_obj(mp_obj_stringio_t);
-        o->base.type = &mp_type_bytesio;
-        o->vstr = m_new_obj(vstr_t);
-        vstr_init_fixed_buf(o->vstr, len + 1, (char *)data);
-        o->vstr->len = len;
-        o->pos = 0;
-        return MP_OBJ_FROM_PTR(o);
-    }
-
-    mp_obj_t path_out = mp_obj_new_str(path_buf.buf, path_buf.len);
-    return mp_builtin_open(1, &path_out, (mp_map_t *)&mp_const_empty_map);
-}
-STATIC MP_DEFINE_CONST_FUN_OBJ_2(resource_stream_obj, resource_stream);
-#endif
-
 STATIC const mp_rom_map_elem_t mp_module_io_globals_table[] = {
     { MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR___name__), MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_uio) },
     // Note: mp_builtin_open_obj should be defined by port, it's not
@@ -256,9 +212,6 @@ STATIC const mp_rom_map_elem_t mp_module_io_globals_table[] = {
     #if MICROPY_PY_IO_IOBASE
     { MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_IOBase), MP_ROM_PTR(&mp_type_iobase) },
     #endif
-    #if MICROPY_PY_IO_RESOURCE_STREAM
-    { MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_resource_stream), MP_ROM_PTR(&resource_stream_obj) },
-    #endif
     #if MICROPY_PY_IO_FILEIO
     { MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_FileIO), MP_ROM_PTR(&mp_type_fileio) },
     #if MICROPY_CPYTHON_COMPAT
diff --git a/py/mpconfig.h b/py/mpconfig.h
index 308a776661..86e3e0f349 100644
--- a/py/mpconfig.h
+++ b/py/mpconfig.h
@@ -1281,17 +1281,6 @@ typedef double mp_float_t;
 #define MICROPY_PY_IO_IOBASE (MICROPY_CONFIG_ROM_LEVEL_AT_LEAST_EXTRA_FEATURES)
 #endif
 
-// Whether to provide "uio.resource_stream()" function with
-// the semantics of CPython's pkg_resources.resource_stream()
-// (allows to access binary resources in frozen source packages).
-// Note that the same functionality can be achieved in "pure
-// Python" by prepocessing binary resources into Python source
-// and bytecode-freezing it (with a simple helper module available
-// e.g. in micropython-lib).
-#ifndef MICROPY_PY_IO_RESOURCE_STREAM
-#define MICROPY_PY_IO_RESOURCE_STREAM (0)
-#endif
-
 // Whether to provide "io.FileIO" class
 #ifndef MICROPY_PY_IO_FILEIO
 #define MICROPY_PY_IO_FILEIO (MICROPY_CONFIG_ROM_LEVEL_AT_LEAST_EXTRA_FEATURES)
diff --git a/tests/io/resource_stream.py b/tests/io/resource_stream.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b589ff99bf..0000000000
--- a/tests/io/resource_stream.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-import uio
-import usys
-
-try:
-    uio.resource_stream
-except AttributeError:
-    print("SKIP")
-    raise SystemExit
-
-buf = uio.resource_stream("data", "file2")
-print(buf.read())
-
-# resource_stream(None, ...) look ups from current dir, hence sys.path[0] hack
-buf = uio.resource_stream(None, usys.path[0] + "/data/file2")
-print(buf.read())
diff --git a/tests/io/resource_stream.py.exp b/tests/io/resource_stream.py.exp
deleted file mode 100644
index 75404a347a..0000000000
--- a/tests/io/resource_stream.py.exp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-1234
-1234
diff --git a/tests/unix/extra_coverage.py b/tests/unix/extra_coverage.py
index b4808993a7..8ea27cbf2f 100644
--- a/tests/unix/extra_coverage.py
+++ b/tests/unix/extra_coverage.py
@@ -89,12 +89,6 @@ try:
 except ZeroDivisionError:
     print("ZeroDivisionError")
 
-# test loading a resource from a frozen string
-import uio
-
-buf = uio.resource_stream("frzstr_pkg2", "mod.py")
-print(buf.read(21))
-
 # test for MP_QSTR_NULL regression
 from frzqstr import returns_NULL
 
diff --git a/tests/unix/extra_coverage.py.exp b/tests/unix/extra_coverage.py.exp
index ea91813fc6..8ee233a712 100644
--- a/tests/unix/extra_coverage.py.exp
+++ b/tests/unix/extra_coverage.py.exp
@@ -174,5 +174,4 @@ frzstr_pkg2.mod
 frzmpy_pkg2.mod
 1
 ZeroDivisionError
-b'# test frozen package'
 NULL