Blank console on recent current

Is there an estimate on when the blank console on
booting may be fixed?  If the answer is someday,
can whoever is responsible for break console 
output please revert their changes?

There is a much worse problem at the moment on
my laptop where heavy disk IO leads to a 
complete lock-up of the system.  The lock up
sometimes times out after 30 seconds.  Without
a console it is somewhat difficult to boot 
either in single user mode or to boot an 
older kernel.

-- 
Steve