I repeated the same SRU verification as before, this time using kmod
from -proposed.

I installed a fresh Bionic KVM, with EFI enabled. I upgraded the system
to use the latest -updates packages. Linux 4.15.0-99-generic and Kmod
24-1ubuntu3.3 were installed. I shut the machine down, set the VGA
device to vga=std, and rebooted. The screen was garbled and unreadable.

I then ssh'd in, enabled -proposed, and installed Linux
4.15.0-100-generic, and kmod 24-1ubuntu3.4. I rebooted, and the display
came up great, and was perfectly readable. Attached screenshot as proof.

Relevent details from dmesg:

[    1.137544] checking generic (c0000000 1d5000) vs hw (c0000000 1000000)
[    1.137545] fb: switching to bochsdrmfb from EFI VGA
[    1.137918] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
[    1.140305] [drm] Found bochs VGA, ID 0xb0c5.
[    1.140308] [drm] Framebuffer size 16384 kB @ 0xc0000000, mmio @ 0xc1c8c000.
[    1.140616] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 2011058 kiB
[    1.140619] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
[    1.140622] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator
[    1.146542] fbcon: bochsdrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    1.149357] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[    1.151830] bochs-drm 0000:00:01.0: fb0: bochsdrmfb frame buffer device
[    1.168977] [drm] Initialized bochs-drm 1.0.0 20130925 for 0000:00:01.0 on 
minor 0

lsmod:

$ lsmod | grep bochs
bochs_drm              20480  1
ttm                   106496  1 bochs_drm
drm_kms_helper        172032  1 bochs_drm
drm                   401408  4 drm_kms_helper,bochs_drm,ttm

Since the Linux package builds bochs-drm, and the kmod package removes
the blacklist, I am happy to mark this verified for both packages.

** Attachment added: "screenshot of vga=std with 4.15.0-100-generic and kmod 
24-1ubuntu3.4"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1872863/+attachment/5369638/+files/Screenshot%20from%202020-05-11%2010-41-12.png

** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
** Tags added: verification-done-bionic

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  QEMU/KVM display is garbled when booting from kernel EFI stub due to
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