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

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-15

Recent patches

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

• WARM3d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 5/5] fbcon: Replace fbcon_fill_cursor_mask() with fbcon_cursor_glyph()
  2026-09-15 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 3/5] vgacon: Use vt_cursor_{start,end}()
  2026-09-15 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 2/5] vgacon: Remove trailing whitespaces
  2026-09-15 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 3/5] vgacon: Use vt_font_cursor_{start,end}()
  2026-09-11 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 5/5] fbcon: Replace fbcon_fill_cursor_mask() with fbcon_cursor_glyph()
  2026-09-11 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 2/5] vgacon: Remove trailing whitespaces
  2026-09-11 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD25d [Patch 7/9]: vt: Handle up to 2^21 glyphs, rather than 256/512
  2026-08-27 · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• COLD25d [Patch 6/9]: vt: Use u32 and typedef u1632 to handle whole glyphs
  2026-08-27 · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• COLD25d [Patch 4/9]: Amend internal manipulation of glyph structure
  2026-08-27 · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• COLD25d [Patch 3/9]: Replace scr_readw/writew by scr_readg/writeg, etc
  2026-08-27 · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• COLD25d [Patch 2/9]: Glyph size: Use GLYPH_SZ/HW rather than hardcoded 2, 1
  2026-08-27 · Alan Mackenzie <hidden>
• STALE129d [PATCH] video: console: mdacon: remove this obsolete driver
  2026-05-20 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 10/10] fbcon: Put font-rotation state into separate struct
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 09/10] fbcon: Fill cursor mask in helper function
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 08/10] lib/fonts: Implement font rotation
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 03/10] lib/fonts: Provide helpers for calculating glyph pitch and size
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 01/10] fbcon: Avoid OOB font access if console rotation fails
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 05/10] lib/fonts: Implement glyph rotation
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 08/10] lib/fonts: Implement font rotation
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 10/10] fbcon: Put font-rotation state into separate struct
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 09/10] fbcon: Fill cursor mask in helper function
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 05/10] lib/fonts: Implement glyph rotation
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 03/10] lib/fonts: Provide helpers for calculating glyph pitch and size
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 01/10] fbcon: Avoid OOB font access if console rotation fails
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE241d [PATCH] printk, vt, fbcon: Remove console_conditional_schedule()
  2026-01-26 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE248d printk's threaded legacy console + fbcon => schedule where it should not
  2026-01-14 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE807d [DO NOT MERGE v8 23/36] mfd: sm501: Convert platform_data to OF property
  2024-05-29 · Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
• STALE850d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v5 3/3] VT: Allow to get max font width and height
  2024-04-17 · Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
• STALE877d [RESEND v7 24/37] mfd: sm501: Convert platform_data to OF property
  2024-04-04 · Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
• STALE850d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v4 3/3] VT: Allow to get max font width and height
  2024-04-02 · Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE178d [PATCH 01/10] fbcon: Avoid OOB font access if console rotation fails
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 03/10] lib/fonts: Provide helpers for calculating glyph pitch and size
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 05/10] lib/fonts: Implement glyph rotation
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 09/10] fbcon: Fill cursor mask in helper function
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 10/10] fbcon: Put font-rotation state into separate struct
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE178d [PATCH 08/10] lib/fonts: Implement font rotation
  2026-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 01/10] fbcon: Avoid OOB font access if console rotation fails
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 08/10] lib/fonts: Implement font rotation
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 03/10] lib/fonts: Provide helpers for calculating glyph pitch and size
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 09/10] fbcon: Fill cursor mask in helper function
  2026-04-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>