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RP1 VEC (Raspberry Pi 5 composite video) occasionally boots with wrong field order #7580

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@njhollinghurst

Describe the bug

Rarely, on booting Raspberry Pi 5 with vc4-kms-v3d,composite and video=704x512i, the console displayed over Composite Video has the fields swapped (scrambled text).

Changing the video mode (e.g. using kmstest or labwc) fixes it. I have not observed the bug on a subsequent mode change; so far have only seen it on boot.

It's clearly related to (caused by?) #7010 but the problem seems to have appeared or become more prevalent since that was merged; perhaps in 6.18

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

config.txt:
vc4-kms-v3d,composite

cmdline.txt:
video=704x512i

Boot to text console on composite video. The field swap is intermittent and rare.

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Raspberry Pi 5

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a recent 6.18 (tbc)

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nothing unusual or different between the swapped and unswapped cases

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