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
If the community members are interested in reviving the hwcomposer
backend,
* it pretty much needs rewrite/re-thinking given differences of hwc1
and hwc2 API for hwcomposer part of it, see also [2]
* It also needs removal of Android 5 based libhardware API as we don't
think code can be kept sane with 3 different levels of ifdefs
* This backend needs better way of fixing difference between
CAF/non-CAF devices then just recompiling with different headers,
maybe env vars?
* This backend does not support various things like transformation/
rotation etc, and is not exactly feature complete as the DRM backend
[1] https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/12/14/plasma-mobile-technical-debt.html
[2] 83f563c339
We have lots of inconsistency at the moment in CMakeLists.txt files. Most
of it is due to kwin being a very old project. This change hopefully fixes
all of it.
Summary:
The main reason for not having it as a mandatory dependency was that BSD
doesn't support it. But as I learned recently it is available on our CI
system. So BSDs have support now.
Even more it showed that the code doesn't compile if the dependency is
missing. And there's one thing I hate: broken build configuration
options.
So let's make UDEV and libinput a required dependency and get rid of the
problems.
Test Plan: Compiles
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D10057
Summary:
Only build
* `virtual_terminal.cpp` in the presence of `linux/vt.h`
* `fbdev`-backend in the precense of `linux/fb.h`
Test Plan:
Reviewers: #kwin, #freebsd, graesslin, bcooksley
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D6847
Summary:
Source code reorganization:
The base class AbstractBackend got renamed to Platform, thus the
"backends" are "platforms" now. As they are plugins they should go
together with other KWin plugins which are nowadays in the folder
plugins.
So new location is plugins/platforms/
Reviewers: #plasma, sebas
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Projects: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D1353
