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Nouveau DRM_Panic Being Worked On For Linux "Blue Screen Of Death" Type Situations


Merged for Linux 6.10 is DRM_Panic as a kernel panic screen for situations akin to Windows' well known 'Blue Screen of Death'

For less than $4 USD per month, you can help support our site while the funds generated allow us to keep doing Linux hardware reviews, performance benchmarking, maintain our community forums, and much more. Patches have been posted by Red Hat for allowing the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Direct Rendering Manager driver to work with DRM Panic. Jocelyn Falempe of Red Hat posted the patches wiring up DRM_Panic for this open-source NVIDIA kernel driver.

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