[Development] When to remove old platform plugins?

[gunnar.sletta at nokia.com]

On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:35 PM, ext Eric Wong wrote:
> Please consider to keep linuxfb platform plugin. There are still
> many devices(e.g ARM9) that have no graphics accelerations at all
> and there is only single process environment.

Taking a plugin out of QtBase does not prevent it from flourishing in a playgrounds repo or even in a supported qtlinuxfb repo when a maintainer for it steps up. Right now, the reality is that many of these plugins are not being looked after and they are therefore halfway broken. 

> I think it makes no sense to use eglfs/opengl which use software 
> rendering as backend on these devices.
> 
> I know we can use directfb or maybe wayland(there are wayland
> fbdev patches floating around) but fbdev is so slim and simple.
> 
> Most embedded system vendors do not deliver KMS driver, fbdev is still 
> de facto standard in low end devices at the moment.
> 
> I am looking forward to using QT5 and QPA with linux framebuffer support.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Eric
> 
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