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 virtual VGA output with QEMU.
It’s great seeing all of the work continue around 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. 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 this pull request.
