[mjg59]

"Fade to black, turn off screen, turn on screen, fade to image" is just slower flicker.

[kelnos]

True, but that does look nicer than normal-speed flicker?

[mjg59]

And slows boot down by a couple of seconds. As long as the firmware sets a native mode, modern OSes can just inherit that rather than performing a modeset and we just ignore the entire problem anyway.