Because con_switch for fbcon can change the video mode. set_palette often
depends on what the state of the graphics hardware is in. So set_palette
must come after the con_switch. Unfortunely the display logo code depended
on this flaw. It was fixed tho in the 2.4.X tree with new logo code.
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