How is this different from the BetterStartup feature of fedora 10? I remember beingreally impressed by the kernel modesetting magic that was going on. No flicke

How is this different from the BetterStartup feature of fedora 10? I remember beingreally impressed by the kernel modesetting magic that was going on. No flicker. No resizing. Has there been regressions because of architecture changes since then?