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

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [PATCH] video: backlicht-pwm: parse num-interpolated-steps
  2026-07-12 · Ingo Reitz <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH] dma: return NULL on dma_alloc_coherent failure
  2026-07-09 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• COLD19d [PATCH] video: fb: mirror cdev writes to shadow buffer
  2026-07-09 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH] video: lcdif: skip framebuffer registration when no display modes available
  2026-06-23 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 07/11] video: lcdif: default to RGB888_1X24 on VPL_GET_BUS_FORMAT failure
  2026-06-04 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 06/11] video: lcdif: use 128B AXI bursts to avoid right-edge gap
  2026-06-04 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 05/11] video: lcdif: make functional on i.MX8MP
  2026-06-04 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 09/11] video: lcdif: drain write-combine framebuffer in fb_damage
  2026-06-04 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 10/11] video: simple-panel: support panel-lvds DT bindings
  2026-06-04 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 11/11] video: simple-panel: lazily resolve backlight without failing
  2026-06-04 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 04/11] video: backlight-pwm: make power-supply and enable-gpio optional
  2026-06-04 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 08/11] video: lcdif: register simplefb fixup and enable framebuffer at probe
  2026-06-04 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH 4/6] video: add i.MX8MP LCDIF2 V8 framebuffer driver
  2026-06-02 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH 5/6] video: add generic panel-lvds driver
  2026-06-02 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH 3/6] video: backlight-pwm: make power-supply and enable-gpio optional
  2026-06-02 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH 6/6] video: imx-lcdif: drain write-combine buffer before LCDIF DMA reads pixels
  2026-06-02 · Johannes Schneider <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 12/20] fbconsole: restrict cursor visibility to DEC private mode 25
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 14/20] fbconsole: implement erase entire line CSI
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 10/20] fbconsole: collect renderable state into struct fbc_screen_state
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 17/20] fbconsole: implement VT100 deferred wrap (last column flag)
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 16/20] fbconsole: implement DEC save/restore cursor
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 19/20] fbconsole: adapt logging depending on activated streams
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 13/20] fbconsole: add new clear_chars helper
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 18/20] fbconsole: implement alternate screen buffer (ESC[?1049h/l)
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 07/20] fbconsole: skip fb_flush when processing escape sequences
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 15/20] fbconsole: support ESC[0J and ESC[1J partial screen clear
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 09/20] fbconsole: precompute foreground/background colors
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 11/20] fbconsole: implement CSI A/B/C/D cursor movement sequences
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 04/20] fbconsole: do not reset cursor visibility alongside attributes
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 03/20] fbconsole: fix handling of CSI buffer overflow
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>

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.

• STALE187d [PATCH 4/4] video: stmfb: add screen base only once
  2026-01-21 · Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
• STALE156d [PATCH master 2/2] video: dw_mipi_dsi: remove VPG workaround for panel initialization
  2026-02-13 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE156d [PATCH v1 2/4] video: mipi-dbi: add display rotation support
  2026-02-13 · Giandomenico Rossi <hidden>
• STALE156d [PATCH v1 1/4] video: mipi-dbi: support for MIPI DBI Type C Option 1
  2026-02-13 · Giandomenico Rossi <hidden>
• STALE156d [PATCH v1 4/4] video: add Ilitek ILI9488 driver for WF35 panel
  2026-02-13 · Giandomenico Rossi <hidden>
• STALE107d [PATCH 2/5] video: simplefb-fixup: use shared SIMPLEFB_FORMATS table
  2026-04-13 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE107d [PATCH 4/5] video: simplefb-fixup: add stdout-path mode to register_simplefb param
  2026-04-13 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 7/9] video: fbconsole: implement get_size
  2026-05-01 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 01/20] fbconsole: remove incomplete CSI_CNT state
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 02/20] fbconsole: improve handling of unexpected escape sequences
  2026-05-03 · Ahmad Fatoum <hidden>