Yes, but who wants to see a text console on their brand new pda, embedded pc, or carpc? I personally like text console as well, but gotta think about end users too. Bootsplash should be an option, IMO, but I don't much care for the idea of a bios setup option, it would take up too much space and be too much of a hassle to deal with. LinuxBIOS is not Award/Phoenix/AMI BIOS, and shouldn't have to emulate them. When LinuxBIOS is used in embedded products, it should never need to have any setup options changed. If it's used on a desktop system, lxbios should be available, and there should be a fallback option in place should something go wrong, such as a payload for booting from USB, etc. Just my 2 cents.
When things are working well, one shouldn't have time to notice a VGA console. It's when things aren't working well when you're really really glad that the "nasty", "old" vga console is there.
i prefer to see the text console and choose text over some splash screen. however i think the old vga console it ugly with the huge fonts. i think my ibook (running linux) uses framebuffer or something during boot and it has smaller fonts. also the firmware has small fonts too. does linux bios have this ?
matt