Recently tried out 7.0 and current on a new laptop and noticed this change.
Till 6.1.5 I have seen NetBSD booting in text mode. Now I notice it switching the video mode during boot itself (something till 6.1.5 was optional). Just curious about the rationale behind this change. I think, it will fix one of the problems : Switching from x11 back to console used to blank out the screen on some hardwares. A few years back I witnessed some Linux distros going through the same change. But since them many of them are prone to arbitrary blanking of display during the boot. Just apprehensive whether that would happen to NetBSD as well. Mayuresh.
