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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
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Christopher Harper

Linux's true BSOD equivalent, DRM Panic, is now supported by the current AMD GPUs

Radeon RX 7900 XT(X).

As covered by Phoronix earlier today, the latest AMDGPU driver fully supports DRM_Panic error screens, which should see it merged into the mainline Linux kernel soon—perhaps even on time for the following Linux release merge window. Linux kernel version 6.13 is set for a November release, so this could make the cut, though it is a bit last-minute.

In the past year, there have been ongoing efforts to improve Blue Screen of Death-styled crashing error messages on Linux operating systems, culminating in two solutions: a "systemd-bsod" error screen functionality covering user space errors added in December and a new "DRM_Panic" functionality added in April for kernel panics and other errors that otherwise crash user space and render systemd-bsod effectively useless. Support for DRM_Panic error screens (DRM stands for Direct Rendering Manager in this context, not Digital Rights Management) is, unfortunately, driver-dependent, but it's now supported on AMD GPUs.

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