{device,soc}-*: use cairo software GTK renderer on quirky devices

GTK shipped the ngl (new GL) renderer last year and deprecated the legacy gl renderer. In GTK 4.17 this renderer has been removed entirely, which means the devices that were forcing the use of this legacy renderer need to now fallback to software rendering instead.

Fixes: #3533 (closed)

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Note that this doesn't need to land just yet, as GTK 4.17 hasn't made it in upstream aports and I couldn't find any in-flight PRs for it either. But I imagine this upgrade is imminent, so we might as well rip the band-aid off sooner than later.

Packages you maintain have been changed: @barni2000 @Minecrell @barni2000 @DylanVanAssche

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Can you also update the commit message like in COMMITSYTLE.md?

-treewide: Use cairo software GTK renderer on quirky devices 
+{device,soc}-*: use cairo software GTK renderer on quirky devices

Note that this doesn't need to land just yet, as GTK 4.17 hasn't made it in upstream aports

BTW: GTK 4.17 is not in Alpine yet, because Gtk follows the even-odd versioning. So 4.18 will get into Alpine together with GNOME 48.

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LGTM, thanks a lot for this work! But waiting for maintainers to have some comments

Maybe on A5xx we could use ngl it only cause some performance issue, on A3xx it cause gpu hangs so we cannot use ngl there.

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Thanks a lot for the work on this!

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