After upgrading from F28 -> F29 today, I noticed that everything is huge in plymouth:

• The encryption passphrase prompt takes up almost my whole screen
• The Fedora charge logo is similarly huge and low-res

We determined this is caused by Hans's work on flicker-free boot. The problem is my motherboard displays its startup screen in a low resolution, and plymouth now retains that resolution to avoid flicker instead of switching to the proper resolution like before. Workaround is to add fbcon=nodefer to the kernel command line.

This might be a hardware-specific issue: not a big deal if only a small minority of users are affected, but quite a big deal if it's a lot of users. The WG should make a decision whether to proceed or ask Hans to revert.

Upstream issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/issues/68