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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH v6 00/10] Add support for a DRM backlight capability
  2026-06-24 16:58 · 4 replies in 7d · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>

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 intel-gfx (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• WARM2d [PATCH v6 04/10] DRM: Add support for client indicating support for luminance
  2026-06-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH v6 03/10] drm: link connectors to backlight devices
  2026-06-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 01/10] Revert "backlight: Remove notifier"
  2026-06-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH v6 02/10] backlight: add kernel-internal backlight API
  2026-06-24 · Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
• STALE117d 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>
• STALE119d 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>
• STALE139d [PATCH -next] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2026-02-06 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE143d [PATCH RFC v6 02/26] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2026-01-20 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE188d [PATCH RFC v5 2/6] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-19 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE181d [PATCH v2 14/19] video/vga: Add VGA_IS0_R
  2025-12-09 · Ville Syrjala <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH 14/19] video/vga: Add VGA_IS0_R
  2025-12-08 · Ville Syrjala <hidden>
• STALE205d [PATCH v4 2/3] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-04 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE215d [PATCH] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-11-24 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE192d [PATCH] fbcon: Reschedule cursor worker if try lock fails
  2025-11-21 · Chaitanya Kumar Borah <hidden>
• STALE220d [PATCH] fbcon: Reschedule cursor worker if try lock fails
  2025-11-21 · Chaitanya Kumar Borah <hidden>
• STALE279d LANDED [PATCH] fbcon: Fix OOB access in font allocation
  2025-09-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE666d [PATCH] fbdev: Introduce devm_register_framebuffer()
  2024-08-30 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE676d [PATCH V3] video/aperture: optionally match the device in sysfb_disable()
  2024-08-21 · Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
• STALE677d [PATCH V2] video/aperture: match the pci device when calling sysfb_disable()
  2024-08-19 · Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
• STALE679d Re: [PATCH] video/aperture: match the pci device when calling sysfb_disable()
  2024-08-16 · Alex Deucher <hidden>
• STALE679d [PATCH] video/aperture: match the pci device when calling sysfb_disable()
  2024-08-09 · Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
• STALE699d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v4 6/6] fbdev/viafb: Make I2C terminology more inclusive
  2024-07-11 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE699d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v4 5/6] fbdev/smscufx: Make I2C terminology more inclusive
  2024-07-11 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE747d [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()
  2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE781d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 6/6] fbdev/viafb: Make I2C terminology more inclusive
  2024-05-08 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE781d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 5/6] fbdev/smscufx: Make I2C terminology more inclusive
  2024-05-08 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE781d [PATCH v2 12/12] fbdev/viafb: Make I2C terminology more inclusive
  2024-05-03 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE781d [PATCH v2 11/12] fbdev/smscufx: Make I2C terminology more inclusive
  2024-05-03 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE784d [PATCH v1 12/12] fbdev/viafb: Make I2C terminology more inclusive
  2024-04-30 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE784d [PATCH v1 11/12] fbdev/smscufx: Make I2C terminology more inclusive
  2024-04-30 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>

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.

• STALE119d 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

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.

• STALE205d [PATCH v4 2/3] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-04 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE188d [PATCH RFC v5 2/6] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-19 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>