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 00/39] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
  2026-09-08 20:11 · 1 reply in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [PATCH 18/39] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE347d [PATCH v2 1/2] Driver: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option
  2025-09-15 · Mukesh Rathor <hidden>
• STALE347d [PATCH v1 1/2] Driver: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option
  2025-09-06 · Mukesh Rathor <hidden>
• STALE372d [PATCH V0 1/2] hyper-v: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option
  2025-08-28 · Mukesh Rathor <hidden>
• STALE863d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 3/3] arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  2024-03-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE863d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-03-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE899d [PATCH v2 3/3] arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  2024-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE899d [PATCH v2 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE933d [PATCH 3/3] arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  2024-02-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE933d [PATCH 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-02-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1035d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 2/5] fbdev: Replace fb_pgprotect() with pgprot_framebuffer()
  2023-09-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1052d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v5 1/4] video: fbdev: atyfb: only use ioremap_uc() on i386 and ia64
  2023-09-21 · Baoquan He <hidden>
• STALE1087d [PATCH v4 2/5] fbdev: Replace fb_pgprotect() with pgprot_framebuffer()
  2023-09-12 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1098d [PATCH v3 2/5] fbdev: Replace fb_pgprotect() with fb_pgprot_device()
  2023-09-11 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1102d [PATCH v2 2/5] fbdev: Replace fb_pgprotect() with fb_pgprot_device()
  2023-09-06 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1104d [PATCH 4/4] fbdev: Replace fb_pgprotect() with fb_pgprot_device()
  2023-09-01 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1122d [PATCH 07/12] arch/x86: Declare edid_info in <asm/screen_info.h>
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1122d [PATCH 09/12] drivers: Add dependencies on CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCREEN_INFO
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1122d [PATCH 11/12] fbdev/core: Protect edid_info with CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_EDID_INFO
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1122d [PATCH 12/12] fbdev/core: Define empty fb_firmware_edid() in <linux/fb.h>
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1122d [PATCH 10/12] fbdev/core: Use fb_is_primary_device() in fb_firmware_edid()
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1122d [PATCH 06/12] arch: Declare screen_info in <asm/screen_info.h>
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1122d [PATCH 02/12] fbdev/sm712fb: Do not include <linux/screen_info.h>
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1056d [PATCH v5 41/44] video: Handle HAS_IOPORT dependencies
  2023-05-22 · Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1056d [PATCH v5 39/44] vgacon: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies
  2023-05-22 · Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1056d [PATCH v5 40/44] fbdev: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies
  2023-05-22 · Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1195d [PATCH v4 38/41] video: handle HAS_IOPORT dependencies
  2023-05-16 · Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1195d [PATCH v4 37/41] fbdev: atyfb: Remove unused clock determination
  2023-05-16 · Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
• STALE1216d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v7 6/7] fbdev: Move framebuffer I/O helpers into <asm/fb.h>
  2023-05-12 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1216d REVIEWED: 7 (5M) [PATCH v7 7/7] fbdev: Rename fb_mem*() helpers
  2023-05-12 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>