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)

• WARM2d [PATCH 00/13] convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 19:26 · 1 reply in 7d · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [PATCH 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD28d [PATCH v3 3/4] fbdev: Wrap fbcon updates from vga-switcheroo in helper
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD28d [PATCH v3 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD28d [PATCH v3 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD28d [PATCH v3 2/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_blank() in helper
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD41d [PATCH v2 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD41d [PATCH v2 3/4] fbdev: Wrap fbcon updates from vga-switcheroo in helper
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD41d [PATCH v2 2/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_blank() in helper
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD41d [PATCH v2 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD44d [PATCH 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD44d [PATCH 3/4] fbdev: Wrap fbcon updates from vga-switcheroo in helper
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD44d [PATCH 2/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_blank() in helper
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD44d [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE560d [PATCH v3 1/3] fbdev: Fix recursive dependencies wrt BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
  2024-12-16 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE561d [PATCH v2 1/3] fbdev: Fix recursive dependencies wrt BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
  2024-12-12 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE571d [PATCH 1/3] fbdev: Fix recursive dependencies wrt BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
  2024-12-10 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE754d [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()
  2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE793d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 3/3] arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  2024-03-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE793d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-03-29 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE829d [PATCH v2 3/3] arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  2024-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE829d [PATCH v2 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-03-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE851d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 1/3] fbdev/chipsfb: Include <linux/backlight.h>
  2024-03-06 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE853d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/3] fbdev/chipsfb: Include <linux/backlight.h>
  2024-03-05 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE843d [PATCH] fbdev/mb862xxfb: Fix defined but not used error
  2024-02-29 · Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
• STALE864d [PATCH 3/3] arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  2024-02-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE864d [PATCH 2/3] arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  2024-02-21 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE951d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 19/32] fbdev/ps3fb: Initialize fb_ops with fbdev macros
  2023-11-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE951d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 18/32] fbdev/ps3fb: Set FBINFO_VIRTFB flag
  2023-11-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE957d [PATCH 19/32] fbdev/ps3fb: Initialize fb_ops with fbdev macros
  2023-11-15 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE957d [PATCH 18/32] fbdev/ps3fb: Set FBINFO_VIRTFB flag
  2023-11-15 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

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.

• COLD44d [PATCH 2/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_blank() in helper
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD44d [PATCH 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-20 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD41d [PATCH v2 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD41d [PATCH v2 2/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_blank() in helper
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD41d [PATCH v2 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD28d [PATCH v3 2/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_blank() in helper
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD28d [PATCH v3 4/4] fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD28d [PATCH v3 1/4] fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD28d [PATCH v3 3/4] fbdev: Wrap fbcon updates from vga-switcheroo in helper
  2026-05-27 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>