X11 has a "VESA" driver since forever, however its performance scales badly since number of pixels to process grows rapidly with the resolution.
Bootable Linux distributions I use at work (GRML and Clonezilla mainly) automatically resize to the native resolution of the screen or virtual KVM during boot with KMS support, and they work really well. Anaconda (RedHat and derivatives' installer) and Debian's installer also scales to native resolution on boot.
GUI installers use VESA over X11 directly.
> xfree86 project was probably the closest attempt to making this "just work"...
XOrg fork has "configless boot" for a long time. I don't maintain a config file for a very long time now, and I'm happier than ever (see https://www.xkcd.com/963/).
Bootable Linux distributions I use at work (GRML and Clonezilla mainly) automatically resize to the native resolution of the screen or virtual KVM during boot with KMS support, and they work really well. Anaconda (RedHat and derivatives' installer) and Debian's installer also scales to native resolution on boot.
GUI installers use VESA over X11 directly.
> xfree86 project was probably the closest attempt to making this "just work"...
XOrg fork has "configless boot" for a long time. I don't maintain a config file for a very long time now, and I'm happier than ever (see https://www.xkcd.com/963/).