framebuffer console · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
• M Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Paths

• F Documentation/fb/fbcon.rst
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_logo.c
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.h
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_ccw.c
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_cw.c
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_rotate.c
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_rotate.h
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_ud.c
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/softcursor.c
• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/tileblit.c
• F include/linux/font.h
• F lib/fonts/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 0/7] vga_switcheroo, drm: Push fbcon handling into DRM clients
  2026-07-09 09:22 · 1 reply in 7d · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 00/10] vga_switcheroo, drm: Push fbcon handling into DRM clients
  2026-07-07 13:57 · 1 reply in 7d · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-25
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-24
• Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-16

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 5/7] drm: Implement struct vga_switcheroo_client_ops.pre_switch
  2026-07-09 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 10/10] vga-switcheroo: Remove unused interfaces
  2026-07-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font()
  2026-06-25 · Mingyu Wang <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH] fbcon: fix NULL pointer dereference for a console without vc_data
  2026-06-24 · Ian Bridges <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font()
  2026-06-24 · <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH] fbcon: Avoid OOB font access if console rotation fails
  2026-06-18 · HAN Ruidong via B4 Relay <devnull+rdhan.smu.edu.sg@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.6 066/452] drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD30d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH] fbdev/arm: Export acorndata_8x8 font symbol for bootloader
  2026-06-09 · Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
• COLD30d [PATCH] fbcon: correct CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING macro name in #endif comment
  2026-06-09 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• COLD30d Re: [PATCH] lib/fonts: Avoid unncessary 64-bit math in font code
  2026-06-08 · Helge Deller <deller@kernel.org>
• COLD30d [PATCH] lib/fonts: Avoid unncessary 64-bit math in font code
  2026-06-07 · Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] fbcon: do suspend/resume only when vc is text mode and visible
  2026-06-01 · <hidden>
• COLD37d [PATCH 1/4] lib/fonts: Look up glyph data with font_data_glyph_buf()
  2026-05-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD36d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
  2026-05-28 · Wenshan Lan <hidden>
• COLD32d [PATCH v3 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD32d [PATCH v3 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD34d [PATCH 7.0] fbdev: fbcon: fix memory leak in error path of fbcon_do_set_font()
  2026-05-25 · <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD48d [PATCH 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD48d [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD47d Re: [PATCH] ARM: mach-rpc: fix zImage build after recent font-related changes
  2026-05-19 · Helge Deller <deller@kernel.org>
• COLD51d [PATCH] fbcon: Use correct type for vc_resize() return value
  2026-05-14 · Jiacheng Yu <hidden>
• COLD47d [PATCH] ARM: mach-rpc: fix zImage build after recent font-related changes
  2026-05-10 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• COLD38d [PATCH] fbcon: don't suspend/resume when vc is graphics mode
  2026-04-30 · <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH] lib/fonts: Fix bit position when rotating by 180 degrees
  2026-04-28 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE93d [PATCH v2 10/10] fbcon: Put font-rotation state into separate struct
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE93d [PATCH v2 07/10] lib/fonts: Refactor glyph-rotation helpers
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE93d [PATCH v2 04/10] lib/fonts: Clean up Makefile
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE93d [PATCH v2 09/10] fbcon: Fill cursor mask in helper function
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

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.

• COLD30d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH] fbdev/arm: Export acorndata_8x8 font symbol for bootloader
  2026-06-09 · Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font()
  2026-06-25 · Mingyu Wang <hidden> · 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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5.10.y] fbcon: Fix the issue of uninitialized charcount in the remaining consoles
  2026-01-05 · Luo Gengkun <hidden>
• STALE129d [PATCH 03/13] vt: Store font in struct vc_font
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE129d [PATCH 04/13] vt: Calculate font-buffer size with vc_font_size()
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE129d [PATCH 08/13] lib/fonts: Read font size with font_data_size()
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE129d [PATCH 05/13] lib/fonts: Remove trailing whitespaces
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE129d [PATCH 11/13] lib/fonts: Create font_data_t from struct console_font with font_data_import()
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE129d [PATCH 06/13] lib/fonts: Remove FNTCHARCNT()
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE129d [PATCH 07/13] lib/fonts: Store font data as font_data_t; update consoles
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE129d [PATCH 09/13] lib/fonts: Compare font data for equality with font_data_is_equal()
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE129d [PATCH 10/13] lib/fonts: Manage font-data lifetime with font_data_get/_put()
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>