Following debugging on IRC it seems that the issue is not kernel version dependant. Plymouth is no using the drm renderer by default. It appears to not be correctly taking account of bits-per-pixed for older framebuffers. Moving to plymouth.
Following debugging on IRC it seems that the issue is not kernel version dependant. Plymouth is no using the drm renderer by default. It appears to not be correctly taking account of bits-per-pixed for older framebuffers. Moving to plymouth.