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Fedora 44 Looking At Replacing FBCON With KMSCON As Default VT Console (www.phoronix.com)
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Fedora 44 is looking at replacing the Linux kernel's console "FBCON" with the user-space-based KMSCON implementation. Eventually the hope remains to deprecate the FBCON/FBDEV code within the Linux kernel.

Jocelyn Falempe of Red Hat laid out the proposal for Fedora 44 to replace FBCON with KMSCON as the default VT console.

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