Maxime Ripard at Red Hat sent out the latest weekly pull of "drm-misc-next" changes to DRM-Next for queuing of these kernel graphics/display driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening up in about one month's time.

This week the Bochs DRM driver is the latest adding DRM_Panic support for supporting Linux's "Blue (Black) Screen of Death" type functionality akin to Windows' BSOD. The Bochs DRM driver can be useful for [1]virtual VGA output with QEMU .

It's great seeing all of the work continue around [2]DRM Panic from driver support to enabling new DRM_Panic features like QR code kernel error messages and more.

The other notable drm-misc-next change for the week is enabling Mediatek MT8370 SoC support within the Panfrost DRM driver. [3]Upstream Linux 6.15 added MT8370 support while now the Panfrost DRM driver is adding support for that newer SoC on the graphics side with its Arm Mali-G57 MC2 GPU. The Mediatek MT8370 also goes by the MediaTek Genio 510 name.

More details on this week's drm-misc-next feature updates on their way to Linux 6.17 via [4]this pull request .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bochs-DRM-Modernizing

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/DRM+Panic

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-SoC-DT-Updates

[4] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250626-sincere-loon-of-effort-6dbdf9@houat/