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Android: Enabling mainline graphics

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Robert Foss
Mar 29, 2017

Android uses the HWC API to communicate with graphics hardware. This API is not supported on the mainline Linux graphics stack, but by using drm_hwcomposer as a shim it now is!

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Robert Foss

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