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Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death"
While systemd 255 last year introduced a 'blue screen of death' inspired solution with systemd-bsod for presenting logged error messages full-screen, it's not appropriate for all errors
Set to be introduced now with Linux 6.10 is a parallel "blue screen of death" like error presenting experience with the introduction of the DRM panic handler. But with Linux kernel panics typically not happening too often, this handler will likely see little activity compared to the notorious days of Windows Blue Screen of Death messages. This DRM panic driver support and other drm-panic work was sent out today as part of this drm-misc-next pull going to DRM-Next and therefore material for Linux 6.10.
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