Comment 9 for bug 1837209

@p-pisati: as mentioned earlier, with pi-kernel rev 21 the splash support worked with dtoverlay line present, which does not anymore - meaning it's a regression. It's also quite a visible regression, since that's the first thing Ubuntu Core pi users see when they boot the device. This might be a 'release critical' regression for 18.04.3, which is planned to be released on the 1st of August. As mentioned by Olivier and Dave, removal of the dtoverlay line does not seem to be a feasible option as of now. And besides, as mentioned, the pi-kernel snap regressed by breaking something that worked fine previously.

Can we identify which modules from the list that Dave presented in comment #5 (which were present in rev 21 but are no longer in 42) would be required and get them back into the initrd? Could we revert the change that removed all those (possibly unneeded) modules from the initrd at least until we know nothing regresses?