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 [PATCH v2 00/13] mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 18:48 · 1 reply in 7d · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-11

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE469d LANDED [PATCH v2 7/9] backlight: pcf50633-backlight: Remove
  2025-03-11 · <hidden>
• STALE487d [PATCH 2/9] backlight: pcf50633-backlight: Remove
  2025-03-09 · <hidden>
• STALE801d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 3/3] arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  2024-03-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE801d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-03-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE837d [PATCH v2 3/3] arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  2024-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE837d [PATCH v2 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE872d [PATCH 3/3] arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  2024-02-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE872d [PATCH 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-02-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE916d [PATCH 21/22] fbdev/fsl-diu-fb: mark wr_reg_wa() static
  2023-11-08 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1008d LANDED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 8/9] hyperv: avoid dependency on screen_info
  2023-10-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1008d LANDED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3 7/9] vga16fb: drop powerpc support
  2023-10-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1008d LANDED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v3 5/9] vgacon: remove screen_info dependency
  2023-10-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1008d LANDED: 17 (16M) [PATCH v3 3/9] dummycon: limit Arm console size hack to footbridge
  2023-10-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1008d LANDED: 17 (17M) [PATCH v3 1/9] vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies
  2023-10-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE974d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 2/5] fbdev: Replace fb_pgprotect() with pgprot_framebuffer()
  2023-09-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1026d [PATCH v4 2/5] fbdev: Replace fb_pgprotect() with pgprot_framebuffer()
  2023-09-12 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1036d [PATCH v3 2/5] fbdev: Replace fb_pgprotect() with fb_pgprot_device()
  2023-09-11 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1041d [PATCH v2 2/5] fbdev: Replace fb_pgprotect() with fb_pgprot_device()
  2023-09-06 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1043d [PATCH 4/4] fbdev: Replace fb_pgprotect() with fb_pgprot_device()
  2023-09-01 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1086d [PATCH v2 8/9] hyperv: avoid dependency on screen_info
  2023-07-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1086d [PATCH v2 7/9] vga16fb: drop powerpc support
  2023-07-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1086d [PATCH v2 5/9] vgacon: remove screen_info dependency
  2023-07-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1086d REVIEWED: 14 (13M) [PATCH v2 3/9] dummycon: limit Arm console size hack to footbridge
  2023-07-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1086d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH v2 1/9] vgacon: rework Kconfig dependencies
  2023-07-19 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE1060d [PATCH 07/12] arch/x86: Declare edid_info in <asm/screen_info.h>
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1060d [PATCH 09/12] drivers: Add dependencies on CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCREEN_INFO
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1060d [PATCH 11/12] fbdev/core: Protect edid_info with CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_EDID_INFO
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE1060d [PATCH 12/12] fbdev/core: Define empty fb_firmware_edid() in <linux/fb.h>
  2023-06-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>