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)

• WARM3d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-08-31 13:44 · 0 replies in 7d · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

Recent patches

Most-recent 14 patches in this subsystem on linuxppc-dev, ordered by date desc.

• WARM3d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-08-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE103d [PATCH v2 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE103d [PATCH v2 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE107d [PATCH 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE107d [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE304d Re: [PATCH v4] powerpc: Use shared font data
  2025-11-05 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• STALE855d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-03-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE891d [PATCH v2 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE926d [PATCH 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-02-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE304d [PATCH v4] powerpc: Use shared font data
  2023-08-25 · <hidden>
• STALE1109d [PATCH v3] powerpc: Use shared font data
  2023-08-12 · <hidden>
• STALE2236d REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH v2 1/2] kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y
  2020-07-07 · Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@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.

• STALE107d [PATCH 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE103d [PATCH v2 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE103d [PATCH v2 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>