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Remove some deprecated drivers and maybe adopt some new ones #255

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I believe that some video drivers listed here is inactive for years and deprecated: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver#driver-repositories
For example xf86-video-freedreno is no longer needed to run X11 server on qualcomm device running upstream linux kernel(it will work, but modesetting can also do the same job and this driver provides no advantage), and it's also useless for those using the downstream BSP kernel... So probably nobody is using it and nobody will find a usage of it in the future.
Thus it'll be better to just remove drivers like this in this project(nobody will work on them anyway)
Btw would it be possible and better to adopt some other useful drivers? Like xf86-video-hwcomposer, which is a driver for libhybris and android's hwcomposer. My own fork (https://github.com/fish4terrisa-MSDSM/xf86-video-hwcomposer) added support for lindroid's apphwc(also sometimes referred as hwc2 in the code), but I guess it breaks the support for the original hwc1... It'll be great if drivers like this still being useful and actively used can be adopted in this project.

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