drm driver for firmware framebuffers · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• M Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>

Paths

• F drivers/firmware/sysfb*.c
• F drivers/gpu/drm/sysfb/
• F drivers/video/aperture.c
• F drivers/video/nomodeset.c
• F include/linux/aperture.h
• F include/linux/sysfb.h
• F include/video/nomodeset.h

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-25

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2] firmware: sysfb: Mark CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB as deprecated
  2026-06-25 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE72d [PATCH 3/8] firmware: sysfb: Make CONFIG_SYSFB a user-selectable option
  2026-04-02 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE173d [PATCH 01/12] video/aperture: Add sysfb restore on DRM probe failure
  2025-12-29 · Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v3 3/9] sysfb: Add struct sysfb_display_info
  2025-11-26 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v3 6/9] sysfb: Move edid_info into sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-26 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v3 2/9] efi: sysfb_efi: Reduce number of references to global screen_info
  2025-11-26 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v3 5/9] sysfb: Pass sysfb_primary_display to devices
  2025-11-26 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v3 4/9] sysfb: Replace screen_info with sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-26 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE228d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v2 06/10] sysfb: Move edid_info into sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE228d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v2 05/10] sysfb: Pass sysfb_primary_display to devices
  2025-11-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE228d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v2 04/10] sysfb: Replace screen_info with sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE228d REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v2 02/10] efi: sysfb_efi: Reduce number of references to global screen_info
  2025-11-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE228d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v2 03/10] sysfb: Add struct sysfb_display_info
  2025-11-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE229d [PATCH 6/6] sysfb: Move edid_info into sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE229d [PATCH 3/6] sysfb: Add struct sysfb_display_info
  2025-11-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE229d [PATCH 5/6] sysfb: Pass sysfb_primary_display to devices
  2025-11-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE229d [PATCH 2/6] efi: sysfb_efi: Reduce number of references to global screen_info
  2025-11-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE229d [PATCH 4/6] sysfb: Replace screen_info with sysfb_primary_display
  2025-11-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE291d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 3/5] drm/sysfb: simpledrm: Add support for interconnect paths
  2025-06-23 · Luca Weiss <hidden>
• STALE291d [PATCH v2 2/5] drm/sysfb: simpledrm: Sort headers correctly
  2025-06-23 · Luca Weiss <hidden>
• STALE385d [PATCH 2/3] drm/sysfb: simpledrm: Add support for interconnect paths
  2025-06-20 · Luca Weiss <hidden>
• STALE403d LANDED [PATCH 2/2] video: Make global edid_info depend on CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID
  2025-06-02 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE880d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v4 3/8] firmware/sysfb: Set firmware-framebuffer parent device
  2024-02-12 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE883d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v3 3/8] firmware/sysfb: Set firmware-framebuffer parent device
  2024-02-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE885d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 3/8] firmware/sysfb: Set firmware-framebuffer parent device
  2024-02-02 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE893d [PATCH 3/8] firmware/sysfb: Set firmware-framebuffer parent device
  2024-01-17 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1046d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.1 009/122] video/aperture: Move vga handling to pci function
  2023-08-28 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1046d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.1 008/122] video/aperture: Only kick vgacon when the pdev is decoding vga
  2023-08-28 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1082d [PATCH v3 2/9] video/aperture: Add a helper for determining if an unmoved aperture contain FB
  2023-07-11 · Sui Jingfeng <hidden>
• STALE1082d [PATCH v3 1/9] video/aperture: Add a helper to detect if an aperture contains firmware FB
  2023-07-11 · Sui Jingfeng <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.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2] firmware: sysfb: Mark CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB as deprecated
  2026-06-25 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> · 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.

• STALE173d [PATCH 01/12] video/aperture: Add sysfb restore on DRM probe failure
  2025-12-29 · Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>