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Drop hwcomposer backend

Vlad Zahorodnii requested to merge work/drop-hwcomposer into master

Plasma Mobile announced that they plan to drop support for Halium devices, see the announcement blog post [1] for the reasons that led to such a decision.

But just to summarize, here are some of the key points from the post:

  • Some of our team members no longer have access to reference LG Nexus 5X device anymore
  • After KDE Neon switched to using Ubuntu 20.04 we no longer are updating the rootfs for halium devices
  • After several important architecture changes in upstream KWin, the hwcomposer backend might be broken and we have no way of verifying it

[1] https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/12/14/plasma-mobile-technical-debt.html

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