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    Remove Raspberry Pi backend and renderer · ca52b31d
    Pekka Paalanen authored
    This patch completely removes the Raspberry Pi backend and the renderer.
    
    The backend and the renderer were written to use the proprietary
    DispmanX API available only on the Raspberry Pi, to demonstrate what the
    tiny computer is capable of graphics wise. They were also used to
    demonstrate how Wayland and Weston in particular could leverage hardware
    compositing capabilities that are not OpenGL. The backend was first
    added in e8de35c9, in 2012.
    
    Since then, the major point has been proven. Over time, support for the
    rpi-backend diminished, it started to deteriorate and hinder Weston
    development. On May 11, I tried to ask if anyone actually cared about
    the rpi-backend, but did not get any votes for keeping it:
    https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2016-May/028764.html
    
    The rpi-backend is a good example of how using an API that is only
    available for specific hardware, even more so as it is only available
    with a proprietary...
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