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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)

• HOTtoday PENDING · 1 of 15 reviewed [PATCH v6 00/15] Add splash DRM client
  2026-10-27 13:53 · 1 reply in 7d · Màxim Pedraza Padilla <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-10-27

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 03/15] fbdev: efifb: move the BMP headers to <video/bmp.h>
  2026-10-27 · Màxim Pedraza Padilla <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH 5/8] firmware: sysfb: Implement screen_info relocation for primary display
  2026-04-02 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE181d [PATCH 8/8] firmware: sysfb: Move CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID to firmware options
  2026-04-02 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE181d [PATCH 3/8] firmware: sysfb: Make CONFIG_SYSFB a user-selectable option
  2026-04-02 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE282d [PATCH 01/12] video/aperture: Add sysfb restore on DRM probe failure
  2025-12-29 · Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
• STALE250d [PATCH v3 8/9] efi: Support EDID information
  2025-11-26 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE250d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 6/9] sysfb: Move edid_info into sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-26 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE250d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 5/9] sysfb: Pass sysfb_primary_display to devices
  2025-11-26 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE250d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 4/9] sysfb: Replace screen_info with sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-26 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE337d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 08/10] efi: Support EDID information
  2025-11-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE337d SUPERSEDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 06/10] sysfb: Move edid_info into sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE337d SUPERSEDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 05/10] sysfb: Pass sysfb_primary_display to devices
  2025-11-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE337d SUPERSEDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 04/10] sysfb: Replace screen_info with sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE338d [PATCH 6/6] sysfb: Move edid_info into sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE338d [PATCH 5/6] sysfb: Pass sysfb_primary_display to devices
  2025-11-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE338d [PATCH 4/6] sysfb: Replace screen_info with sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE341d [PATCH 3/3] efi: Add FIRMWARE_EDID support
  2025-11-19 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE341d [PATCH 2/3] video/edid: Use getter function for edid_info
  2025-11-19 · Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
• STALE1114d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 8/9] hyperv: avoid dependency on screen_info
  2023-10-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1114d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 7/9] vga16fb: drop powerpc support
  2023-10-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1114d LANDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v3 5/9] vgacon: remove screen_info dependency
  2023-10-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1114d LANDED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v3 3/9] dummycon: limit Arm console size hack to footbridge
  2023-10-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1114d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 1/9] vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies
  2023-10-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1192d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 8/9] hyperv: avoid dependency on screen_info
  2023-07-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1192d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 7/9] vga16fb: drop powerpc support
  2023-07-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1192d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 5/9] vgacon: remove screen_info dependency
  2023-07-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1192d SUPERSEDED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v2 3/9] dummycon: limit Arm console size hack to footbridge
  2023-07-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1192d SUPERSEDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 1/9] vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies
  2023-07-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1205d [PATCH] fbdev/hyperv_fb: Include <linux/screen_info.h>
  2023-07-10 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1209d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 2/4] fbdev/sm712fb: Do not include <linux/screen_info.h>
  2023-07-06 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

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.

• STALE181d [PATCH 8/8] firmware: sysfb: Move CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID to firmware options +7 more in this series
  2026-04-02 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>