A proposal was raised a month ago for Fedora Linux 44 to replace the kernel’s frame-buffer console “FBCON” with KMSCON in user-space. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now granted approval for making this change in Fedora 44 as part of a larger foal to eventually deprecate FBCON/FBDEV emulation in the kernel.

There is some apprehension if all the proper fall-backs will be in place and robust enough in the event of any problems with this user-space console solution, but ultimately there was unanimous approval in the FESCo ticket for going ahead with these KMSCON plans for Fedora 44.