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DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs

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[1]DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for [2]"Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle [3]QR code error messages , [4]monochrome logos , and other customization options. The AMDGPU driver has new patches available for expanding the DRM_Panic support to all DCE/DCN-based graphics cards.

DRM_Panic requires support on the part of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver and was initially limited to a few basic drivers. Since then DRM_Panic support has been extended to the more prominent kernel graphics/display drivers. Recently there's been work on [5]DRM_Panic for the AMDGPU driver . AMDGPU maintainer Alex Deucher this week now posted a patch-set for allowing DRM_Panic on all modern AMD graphics processors making use of the DCE/DCN display IP.

[6]This patch series builds on the earlier AMDGPU DRM_Panic patches to get this panic support working for all DCE/DCN variants and code paths. We'll see if it gets picked up in time for the upcoming Linux v6.13 merge window.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/DRM_Panic

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-DRM-Panic-Handler

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-DRM-Graphics

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Panic-Monochrome-Logo

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DRM-Panic-Patch

[6] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2024-October/116306.html


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