FTR a presentation about this was given at FOSDEM. [1] The display goes from BIOS logo to login screen. Windows does this and, according to the presentation, non-technical users expect it to some extend. It requires a number of changes to the 'boot services' (Grub, kernel console, Plymouth) to leave the display alone. I think we should disable it for now until the rest of our stack is ready. Having garbage on the screen is worse than what we have today. In the longer term, I wouldn't mind if we support this and maybe we can even make it run-time configurable. [1] https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/flickerfree/