It is not informative yet, but I like that it’s blue. It’s a quite recognizable color. Windows made it recognizable by having a lot of BSODs. People are asking why it couldn’t be just black, but with non-black BSOD one can recognize it instantly without reading the text.
Just for reference, a few years back, (ex-Microsoft) David Plummer had this historical dive into the (MIPS) origin of the blue color, and how Windows is not blue anymore: https://youtu.be/KgqJJECQQH0?t=780
A QR code created from the actual fault text would be super helpful. That way we can scan it and get the full error message (details and all) on another device without having to snap a picture or something. But not like windows does it, where it’s a link to a defunct page. I’m taking about the actual text transcoded into a QR code.
I believe the main contributor for drm_panic wants to add one eventually. Here’s what it might look like:
https://gitlab.com/kdj0c/panic_report/-/issues/1
Also it looks like the colours are configurable at compile time (with white on black default).
And windows shows it for a few seconds, never enough time to pick the phone.
Reminds me of my Windows XP days when I used to customise the hell out of everything I could… custom boot screen… and yes custom BSOD. Which I switched to red 🟥❗ One day my PC RSODs in front of a family member and he said, “Oh shit, that must be really bad if it’s red instead of blue!” 😂
What’s DRM in this context? Surely linux kernel doesn’t do digital rights management?
Fuck HDMI. The committee makes doing custom hardware near impossible unless you’re a mega corp
