With just a few weeks to go until the official [1]Fedora 44 release, there is already feature planning and activity beginning for Fedora 45 that will be released toward the end of 2026. Among the early feature approvals is a new web front-end feature to the DRM Panic "Blue/Black Screen of Death" functionality with a specialized QR code for kernel errors.

The [2]DRM Panic functionality in the mainline kernel has proven quite useful for displaying a more visual/end-user friendly message when a kernel panic or similar occurs. There is the option of extra features too like encoding the kernel log into a QR code for more easily capturing the output than the limited space on the current screen's frame-buffer. DRM Panic support has been adopted now by most of the upstream DRM/KMS kernel graphics/display drivers.

Rather than just encoding the raw kernel log into a QR code for DRM Panic, a Fedora idea that was raised earlier this year is [3]embedding it with a custom link to a nicely formatted Fedora web page . From that web page the kernel log would then be displayed along with additional helpers like informing end-users how they can report this to a Fedora bug report if so desired.

So the Fedora panic screen's QR code would be catered to taking users to a specialized web page when snapping the QR code from their mobile device or similar.

Here were examples of the web interface to DRM Panic shown earlier this year with the prototype implementation:

This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) [4]approved the change proposal for Fedora 45. So assuming no technical issues come up with the implementation ahead of October, you can expect to find this more user-friendly Fedora DRM panic screen / web front-end with F45.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Fedora+44

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

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Panic-Nicer-Fedora-Idea

[4] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3579