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

• HOTtoday 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>
• WARM3d 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>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 09/14] mfd: remove unused lm3533 driver
  2026-09-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 08/14] mfd: remove unused aat2870 driver
  2026-09-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 07/14] mfd: remove unused lp8788 driver
  2026-09-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 06/14] mfd: remove unused da903x driver
  2026-09-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 05/14] mfd: remove unused adp5520 driver
  2026-09-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 18/39] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 06/13] ARM: omap2: remove omap24xx support
  2026-09-08 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 02/13] ARM: remove footbridge
  2026-09-08 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE129d [PATCH] video: console: mdacon: remove this obsolete driver
  2026-05-20 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE178d [PATCH] doc: clarify sisfb notes and fix minor wording issues
  2026-04-01 · George Jones <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] update email address and firmware url for Dreamcast
  2026-03-29 · Adrian McMenamin <hidden>
• STALE206d 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>
• STALE208d 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>
• STALE228d [PATCH -next] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2026-02-06 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE245d [PATCH] Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate
  2026-01-23 · Jani Nikula <hidden>
• STALE232d [PATCH RFC v6 02/26] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2026-01-20 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE277d [PATCH RFC v5 2/6] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-19 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE294d [PATCH v4 2/3] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-04 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE299d [PATCH 5/5] fbcon: Remove fb_debug_enter/_leave from struct fb_ops
  2025-11-25 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE304d [PATCH] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-11-24 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE296d [PATCH 4/4] Documentation: use a source-read extension to include the index boilerplate
  2025-11-12 · Jani Nikula <hidden>
• STALE296d [PATCH 3/4] Documentation: include the boilerplate for SPHINXDIRS index link
  2025-11-12 · Jani Nikula <hidden>
• STALE362d [PATCH] Documentation: fix spelling, typos, grammar, duplicated words
  2025-09-26 · Markus Heidelberg <hidden>
• STALE360d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: fb: ep93xx: Demote section headings
  2025-09-22 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE360d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: fb: Retitle driver docs
  2025-09-22 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE360d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: fb: Split toctree
  2025-09-22 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE369d [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: fb: Split toctree
  2025-09-19 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE369d [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: fb: ep93xx: Demote section headings
  2025-09-19 · Bagas Sanjaya <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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] update email address and firmware url for Dreamcast
  2026-03-29 · Adrian McMenamin <hidden>