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 vt: Enlarge the framebuffer glyph size from 16 to 32 bits
  2026-08-27 18:54 · 5 replies in 7d · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: atafb: Restrict SuperBlitter to supported formats
  2026-08-27 09:40 · 0 replies in 7d · Linmao Li <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] treewide: fix spelling of "overridden"
  2026-08-26 08:37 · 0 replies in 7d · Linlin Yang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v4 0/2] backlight: Add support for Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-26 07:33 · 1 reply in 7d · Wim de With <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: ssd1307fb: fix NULL pointer dereference on missing match data
  2026-08-25 09:01 · 0 replies in 7d · Yang Zi <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] fbdev: omapfb: Fix __be32 sparse warning in panel_enabled()
  2026-08-22 09:48 · 0 replies in 7d · Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
  9 attestations (9 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-19
• Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@kernel.org>
  5 attestations (5 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-26
• Eulgyu Kim <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-19
• Jaeyoung Chung <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-19
• kernel test robot <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-22
• Andy Shevchenko <hidden>
  2 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-31
• Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-20
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-08
• Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-31

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [Patch 7/9]: vt: Handle up to 2^21 glyphs, rather than 256/512
  2026-08-27 · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• HOTtoday [Patch 6/9]: vt: Use u32 and typedef u1632 to handle whole glyphs
  2026-08-27 · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• HOTtoday [Patch 4/9]: Amend internal manipulation of glyph structure
  2026-08-27 · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• HOTtoday [Patch 3/9]: Replace scr_readw/writew by scr_readg/writeg, etc
  2026-08-27 · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• HOTtoday [Patch 2/9]: Glyph size: Use GLYPH_SZ/HW rather than hardcoded 2, 1
  2026-08-27 · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: atafb: Restrict SuperBlitter to supported formats
  2026-08-27 · Linmao Li <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] treewide: fix spelling of "overridden"
  2026-08-26 · Linlin Yang <hidden>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 2/2] backlight: Add support for Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-26 · Wim de With <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: ssd1307fb: fix NULL pointer dereference on missing match data
  2026-08-25 · Yang Zi <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] fbdev: omapfb: Fix __be32 sparse warning in panel_enabled()
  2026-08-22 · Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v3] fbdev: platinumfb: add error checking for ioremap calls
  2026-08-20 · Yue Bing Kun <hidden>
• COOLING7d Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: platinumfb: add error checking for ioremap calls
  2026-08-19 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 4/5] fbdev: Add support for SuperVidel's SuperBlitter
  2026-08-19 · Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 3/5] fbdev: Add support for further video bit depths on atafb:external
  2026-08-19 · Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 2/5] fbdev: Give atafb proper parent
  2026-08-19 · Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
• COOLING8d [BUG] KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds Read in imageblit
  2026-08-19 · Jaeyoung Chung <hidden>
• COOLING8d [BUG] KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds Write in fillrect
  2026-08-19 · Jaeyoung Chung <hidden>
• COOLING6d IN LINUX-NEXT [BUG] KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in soft_cursor
  2026-08-19 · Jaeyoung Chung <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 12/13] treewide: convert rdmsrq() from a macro to an inline function
  2026-08-19 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 06/13] fbdev/geode: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces
  2026-08-19 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH] fbdev: omapfb: panel-dsi-cm: initialize lock before registering display
  2026-08-18 · Runyu Xiao <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v4] video: fbdev: via: refactor strcpy and viafb_name
  2026-08-18 · Ajith P V <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 1/2] backlight: led_bl: Add devm_led_backlight_register() helper
  2026-08-17 · "A. Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v2] fbdev: platinumfb: add error checking for ioremap calls
  2026-08-17 · yuebingkun <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH] fbdev: platinumfb: add error checking for ioremap calls
  2026-08-17 · yuebingkun <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH] fbdev: platinumfb: add error checking for ioremap calls
  2026-08-17 · yuebingkun <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH] fbdev: platinumfb: replace strcpy with strscpy
  2026-08-17 · yuebingkun <hidden>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 2/2] backlight: Add support for Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-16 · Wim de With <hidden>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 4/5] fbdev: Add support for SuperVidel's SuperBlitter
  2026-08-16 · Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 2/5] fbdev: Give atafb proper parent
  2026-08-16 · Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>

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.

• STALE179d 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> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE99d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v8 2/4] backlight: add max25014atg backlight
  2026-04-07 · Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maudspierings.gocontroll.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 1/2] backlight: cgbc: Remove redundant X86 dependency
  2026-04-27 · Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE104d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.10] fbdev: ipu-v3: clean up kernel-doc warnings
  2026-05-11 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.10] fbdev: ipu-v3: clean up kernel-doc warnings
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE76d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 11/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Improve logic of sysfs functions
  2026-06-06 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE76d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 12/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Set initial mapping mode from DT
  2026-06-06 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE76d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 13/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Implement backlight_scale property
  2026-06-06 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 11/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Improve logic of sysfs functions
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 12/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Set initial mapping mode from DT
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <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.

• STALE202d [PATCH v1 3/3] fbdev: au1100fb: Don't store device specific data in global variables
  2026-02-04 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• STALE200d [PATCH v2 2/4] fbdev: au1100fb: Mark several local functions as static
  2026-02-07 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• STALE199d [PATCH v3 1/6] fbdev: au1100fb: Don't store device specific data in global variables
  2026-02-08 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• STALE199d [PATCH v3 2/6] fbdev: au1100fb: Mark several local functions as static
  2026-02-08 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• STALE199d [PATCH v3 4/6] fbdev: au1100fb: Use %pad to printk a value of type dma_addr_t
  2026-02-08 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• STALE199d [PATCH v3 6/6] fbdev: au1100fb: Replace custom printk wrappers by pr_*
  2026-02-08 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• STALE193d [PATCH v4 2/7] fbdev: au1100fb: Mark several local functions as static
  2026-02-15 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• STALE193d [PATCH v4 1/7] fbdev: au1100fb: Don't store device specific data in global variables
  2026-02-15 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• STALE193d [PATCH v4 3/7] fbdev: au1100fb: Use proper conversion specifiers in printk formats
  2026-02-15 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• STALE193d [PATCH v4 4/7] fbdev: au1100fb: Make driver compilable on non-mips platforms
  2026-02-15 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>