Kernel 5.10 - RPI1 + Kodi no longer usable because the connection to the screen always breaks down

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Bug
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The report compares kernel 5.10.14 with 5.4 on an RPI1 running Kodi and HDMI at 1080p, using bcmrpi_defconfig. Start by reproducing the display failure with both kernel versions and inspect dmesg and syslog, which the report says contain no useful errors. Done means identifying the regression or a confirmed configuration cause so the HDMI connection remains usable.

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For days I've been trying in vain to get the kernel 5.10 (currently .14) and Kodi to work.

The connection to the screen (HDMI 1080p 50 or 60Hz) keeps breaking down and the TV finally reports 'No signal'.
Unfortunately there is nothing in the logs (neither dmesg nor syslog reports anything).

Using kernel 5.4 everything works fine of course. The 5.10 kernel was built with bcmrpi_defconfig, only BTRFS is builtin because BTRFS is used as root filesystem.

Trying with cma=xxx did not change anything

Did I miss something or is the kernel 5.10 currently really almost unusable?
(see also https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4112)

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