It does work on xenial. (Seems we don't need xorg hwe for hwe kernels now.)
user@user:~$ cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-59-generic root=UUID=50c3a930-a3e9-4444-b4ea-1646d276c7c6 ro rootflags=subvol=@ ipv6.disable=1 zswap.enabled=0 raid=noautodetect priority=low video=SVIDEO-1:d module_blacklist=r8169,mii,msr,jfs,xfs,bluetooth,hfs,hfsplus,ufs,minix,ntfs,joydev,mac_hid user@user:~$ uname -a Linux user 4.15.0-59-generic #66~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 14 15:42:01 UTC 2019 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
It does work on xenial. (Seems we don't need xorg hwe for hwe kernels now.)
user@user:~$ cat /proc/cmdline /@/boot/ vmlinuz- 4.15.0- 59-generic root=UUID= 50c3a930- a3e9-4444- b4ea-1646d276c7 c6 ro rootflags=subvol=@ ipv6.disable=1 zswap.enabled=0 raid=noautodetect priority=low video=SVIDEO-1:d module_ blacklist= r8169,mii, msr,jfs, xfs,bluetooth, hfs,hfsplus, ufs,minix, ntfs,joydev, mac_hid
BOOT_IMAGE=
user@user:~$ uname -a
Linux user 4.15.0-59-generic #66~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 14 15:42:01 UTC 2019 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux