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Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17

([Linux Kernel] 6 Hours Ago Linux 6.17 DRM)


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/


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Clippit Charged With Attempted Murder

Microsoft's Dancing Paper Clip turned violent last week and nearly killed
a university student testing a new Windows-based human-computer interface.
The victim is expected to make a full recovery, although psychiatrists
warn that the incident may scar him emotionally for life. "You can bet
this kid won't be using Windows or Office ever again," said one shrink.

The victim had been alpha-testing CHUG (Computer-Human Unencumbered
Groupware), a new interface in which the user controls the computer with
force-feedback gloves and voice activation.

"I was trying to write a term paper in Word," he said from his hospital
bed. "But then that damned Dancing Paper Clip came up and started annoying
me. I gave it the middle finger. It reacted by deleting my document, at
which point I screamed at it and threatened to pull the power cord. I
didn't get a chance; the force-feedback gloves started choking me."

"We told Clippit it had the right to remain silent, and so on," said a
campus police officer. "The paperclip responded, 'Hi, I'm Clippit, the
Office Assistant. Would you like to create a letter?' I said, 'Look here,
Mr. Paperclip. You're being charged with attempted murder.' At that point
the computer bluescreened."