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)

• Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-17

Recent patches

Most-recent 4 patches in this subsystem on kvmarm, ordered by date desc.

• WARM1d IN LINUX-NEXT: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d [PATCH 18/39] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE2202d [trivial PATCH] treewide: Convert switch/case fallthrough; to break;
  2020-09-09 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.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.

• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by