Comment 42 for bug 1434581

So at least I can confirm that a boot with 3.13 and vesafb set to 1280x1024 by grub (the default otherwise was 640x480) scrolls by quite slowly. I need to get a pre-3.12 there to get to see the before state.

Looking at the code in 3.13, I see only one change to vesafb that came related to introducting simplefb:

commit 2e5155ecbb729d3a2e7d1cea7c18493516fec55a
Author: David Herrmann <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Aug 2 14:05:25 2013 +0200

    fbdev: vesafb: bind to platform-framebuffer device

I could not immediately find any SAUCE patches but I got rid of copies of previous releases as they went out of support and our archive is currently undergoing some maintenance. The change above is not directly addressing optimizations but changed the setup in a way which maybe affects passing in options (like use of mtrr).