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by adrian_b 463 days ago
There is no need for early kernel modesetting.

On the systems where I have seen this happening, it is normally extremely annoying, because it may select a minuscule bitmap font on a high-resolution display. The user may need to type almost blindly the terminal command for changing the font to the biggest bitmap font provided with the Linux kernel, which for a long time had been sun12x22, but nowadays there is also a more decent ter16x32.

It is better when the kernel stays in VGA mode until X is started.