It's not the bootsplash that causes the "hang", it's the AMDGPU driver kicking in. With firmware issues or amdgpu bugs in the past, my tty goes away when the mo

It's not the bootsplash that causes the "hang", it's the AMDGPU driver kicking in. With firmware issues or amdgpu bugs in the past, my tty goes away when the module is inserted. The driver goes in, the system tries to switch to an accelerated framebuffer, the GPU driver has a problem, and you're left just looking at a black screen. Bootsplash just does this earlier in the process by inserting the module and throwing up some DRM/GBM app while in initramfs. The system was still up, I ssh'd in and looked at the logs.