
Since Laurent Pinchart's call for deprecating FBDEV, we've seen more hardware pick up Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) and Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2), but the kernel fbdev drivers are still around and seeing a bit of work from time to time.
The Linux frame-buffer drivers are still around since not everything has a DRM/V4L2 driver and not all software programs have abandoned their fbdev support, but hopefully over time we'll see this older Linux display technology be phased out more and more.
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