HEADS-UP: options VESA removal from x86 GENERIC

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From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 21:56:20 UTC

As reported by Stefan Blachmann in a reply on freebsd-hackers[1],
having `options VESA` compiled into the kernel or loaded as a module
breaks suspend-resume with the nvidia driver. See PR 253733.

The default console is provided by vt(4), which does not use the
`options VESA` driver, which serves no purpose for most users. (vt(4)
supports a loader-set VBE mode via the vt_vbefb driver.)

Thus, I plan to remove[2] options VESA from the x86 kernel config
files. sc(4) users who wish to select alternate VBE modes will still
be able to do so by loading the kernel module.

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000469.html
[2] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33141