Here's the current state of the fastboot work by Jesse. The goal is to preserve the framebuffer as setup by the BIOS or grub for fbcon and so avoid any flicker right up until X. X is likely to replace everything and so incur a modechange, but ultimately even it may be satisfied and we may contrive to be able to avoid a flicker even for X. The first 25 patches lay the groundwork for a new type of object allocated from stolen memory and preserved across GEM initialisation, with the subsequent 18 patches for extracting the current mode configuration (with one or two HACKs still remaining). http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/linux-2.6/log/?h=fastboot -Chris
