framebuffer layer · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

Paths

• F Documentation/fb/
• F drivers/video/
• F include/linux/fb.h
• F include/uapi/linux/fb.h
• F include/uapi/video/
• F include/video/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Simon Ser <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-06-24

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on amd-gfx (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING8d [PATCH v2 5/7] drm: Implement struct vga_switcheroo_client_ops.pre_switch
  2026-07-09 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING9d [PATCH 10/10] vga-switcheroo: Remove unused interfaces
  2026-07-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v6 04/10] DRM: Add support for client indicating support for luminance
  2026-06-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v6 03/10] drm: link connectors to backlight devices
  2026-06-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 01/10] Revert "backlight: Remove notifier"
  2026-06-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v6 02/10] backlight: add kernel-internal backlight API
  2026-06-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.6 066/452] drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 02/11] backlight: add kernel-internal backlight API
  2026-05-31 · "Mario Limonciello (AMD)" <superm1@kernel.org>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 04/11] DRM: Add support for client indicating support for luminance
  2026-05-31 · "Mario Limonciello (AMD)" <superm1@kernel.org>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 03/11] drm: link connectors to backlight devices
  2026-05-31 · "Mario Limonciello (AMD)" <superm1@kernel.org>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 01/11] Revert "backlight: Remove notifier"
  2026-05-31 · "Mario Limonciello (AMD)" <superm1@kernel.org>
• COLD44d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
  2026-05-28 · Wenshan Lan <hidden>
• COLD53d [PATCH v3 3/8] drm: link connectors to backlight devices
  2026-04-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• COLD53d [PATCH v3 1/8] backlight: add kernel-internal backlight API
  2026-04-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• COLD53d [PATCH v3 2/8] backlight: expose the current brightness in the new kernel API
  2026-04-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] treewide: fix occured typo in drivers
  2026-04-18 · wooridge <hidden>
• STALE136d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [reference PATCH v11 2/4] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two)
  2026-02-24 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE138d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v10 2/8] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two)
  2026-02-18 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE158d [PATCH -next] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2026-02-06 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE162d [PATCH RFC v6 02/26] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2026-01-20 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE178d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 1/2] drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
  2026-01-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <hidden>
• STALE178d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 1/2] drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
  2026-01-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <hidden>
• STALE206d [PATCH RFC v5 2/6] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-19 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE223d [PATCH v4 2/3] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-04 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE226d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.12.y] drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
  2025-12-02 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE227d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.6.y] drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
  2025-12-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE226d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.12.y] drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
  2025-12-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE228d [PATCH 5/5] fbcon: Remove fb_debug_enter/_leave from struct fb_ops
  2025-11-25 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE233d [PATCH] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-11-24 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE694d [PATCH V3] video/aperture: optionally match the device in sysfb_disable()
  2024-08-21 · Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE138d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v10 2/8] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two)
  2026-02-18 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 01/10] Revert "backlight: Remove notifier"
  2026-06-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> · 1 Tested-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] treewide: fix occured typo in drivers
  2026-04-18 · wooridge <hidden>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 01/11] Revert "backlight: Remove notifier"
  2026-05-31 · "Mario Limonciello (AMD)" <superm1@kernel.org>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 04/11] DRM: Add support for client indicating support for luminance
  2026-05-31 · "Mario Limonciello (AMD)" <superm1@kernel.org>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 03/11] drm: link connectors to backlight devices
  2026-05-31 · "Mario Limonciello (AMD)" <superm1@kernel.org>
• COLD47d [PATCH v5 02/11] backlight: add kernel-internal backlight API
  2026-05-31 · "Mario Limonciello (AMD)" <superm1@kernel.org>