Public bug reported:

The fbdev subsystem has been deprecated for a long time. We should drop
it in favour of using simpledrm with fbdev emulation layer.

This requires config changes:

DRM=y
DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y

FB_EFI=n
FB_VESA=n (? check this)

SYSFB_SIMPLEFB=y

fbcon will still require FB to be available, but will use the fbdev
emulation layer

At the time of filing this bug report, the NVIDIA drivers don't support
the fbdev emulation layer, so VT's would be broken on them if this was
to be enabled right now. So the drivers need fixing, and this bug report
is a placeholder until we are able to move forward.


fedora bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022385

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-470 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-470 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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  Migrate from fbdev drivers to simpledrm and DRM fbdev emulation layer

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