DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs

DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR code error messages, monochrome logos, and other customization options. The AMDGPU driver has new patches available for expanding the DRM_Panic support to all DCE/DCN-based graphics cards...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DCE-DCN-DRM-Panic

[letonga]

Oh that's pretty useful if it restarts instantly of does not display anything :-D

[aviallon]

For some reason, since the recent outrage concerning the brutal banning of several kernel maintainers, Linux news feel much less exciting.
I have a sharp feeling of betrayal because of what happened. And yet, I am French.
Who knows what'll happen next.
We live in strange times, that is for sure.

[Alexmitter]

For some reason, since the recent outrage concerning the brutal banning of several kernel maintainers, Linux news feel much less exciting.
I have a sharp feeling of betrayal because of what happened. And yet, I am French.
Who knows what'll happen next.
We live in strange times, that is for sure.

Oh no, those poor souls working for the russian offense industry and related industries that were brutally banned. I may cry a tiny tear for them.

[usernameinput]

While I haven't had a kernel panic in 10 years probably this is good as long as the QR code points to something useful unlike how Windows just gives you a frowney face.

Also While Linus' comments on the Russia stuff might have confused people, certainly confused me since that was the first thing I read about it, after looking into what the requirements are it is pretty reasonable. People from Russia can still contribute and can still be in the maintainers file if they submit documentation proving they aren't working for companies affiliated with the kremlin. Pretty reasonable given the war and all imo.

[aerospace]

As I said, a panic message that *needs to be supported* is bad a priori, It doesn't matter how fancy it is. Making it vurnerable to more and more failure points is plain bad engineering, anything in the panic path should work from a vesa card to an A100. Tomorrow someone will propose a "tiny" LLM model running on the GPU to produce the most informative panic message ever, and promises of speed and useful information will follow. Mark my words.

[aerospace]

Oh no, those poor souls working for the russian offense industry and related industries that were brutally banned. I may cry a tiny tear for them.

Out of topic but...So you're OK with the "poor souls" working for the western offense industry to be kept as maintainers?

[smitty3268]

For some reason, since the recent outrage concerning the brutal banning of several kernel maintainers, Linux news feel much less exciting.
I have a sharp feeling of betrayal because of what happened. And yet, I am French.
Who knows what'll happen next.
We live in strange times, that is for sure.

It's good you have your priorities straight. Don't care about the hundreds of people being maimed and killed every day (on both sides), but make a few IT professionals submit patches through other people instead of directly and it's just brutal to have to live through such a betrayal, isn't it?

[NotMine999]

As I said, a panic message that *needs to be supported* is bad a priori, It doesn't matter how fancy it is. Making it vurnerable to more and more failure points is plain bad engineering, anything in the panic path should work from a vesa card to an A100. Tomorrow someone will propose a "tiny" LLM model running on the GPU to produce the most informative panic message ever, and promises of speed and useful information will follow. Mark my words.

Or what about a fancy QR panic picture that distributes malware instead?

I can't wait for that to happen and the developers of this bright QR panic idea have one of those "What were we thinking?" moments.

[NotMine999]

Out of topic but...So you're OK with the "poor souls" working for the western offense industry to be kept as maintainers?

Please. Don't. Turn. This. Forum. Into. MORONIX.