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New Linux 'Screen of Death' Options: Black - or a Monochrome Tux Logo
It was analgous to the "Blue Screen of Death" that Windows gives for critical errors, Phoronix wrote. To enable error messages for things like a kernel panic, Linux 6.10 introduced a new panic handler infrastructure for "Direct Rendering Manager" (or DRM) drivers. Phoronix also published a foll...
It was analgous to the "Blue Screen of Death" that Windows gives for critical errors, Phoronix wrote. Phoronix also published a follow-up from Red Hat engineer Javier Martinez Canillas(who was involved in the new DRM Panic infrastructure). This monochrome logo support in the DRM Panic handler was sent out as part of this week's drm-misc-next pull request ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window in July.
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