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  10 <h1>Supported Systems and Drivers</h1>
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  12 <p>
  13 Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems.
  14 But there's also support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other
  15 systems such as Haiku.
  16 We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and
  17 software drivers.
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  21 The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1
  22 and ES 2, OpenVG and the EGL interface.
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  25 <p>
  26 Hardware drivers include:
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  28 <ul>
  29   <li>Intel i965, i945, i915.
  30     See <a href="http://intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html" target="_parent">
  31       Intel's website</a></li>
  32   <li>AMD Radeon series.
  33   See <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature" target="_parent">RadeonFeature</a></li>
  34   <li>NVIDIA GPUs.
  35   See <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org" target="_parent">Nouveau Wiki</a></li>
  36   <li><a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/vmware" target="_parent">VMware virtual GPU</a></li>
  37 </ul>
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  39 <p>
  40 Software drivers include:
  41 </p>
  42 <ul>
  43 <li><a href="llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a> - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code
  44     generation and is multi-threaded
  45 <li>softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
  46 <li>swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
  47 </ul>
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  49 <p>
  50 Additional driver information:
  51 </p>
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  53 <ul>
  54 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/" target="_parent"> DRI hardware
  55 drivers</a> for the X Window System
  56 <li><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver</a> for the X Window System
  57 and Unix-like operating systems
  58 <li><a href="README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows</a>
  59 <li><a href="vmware-guest.html">VMware</a> guest OS driver
  60 </ul>
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  63 <h1>
  64 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
  65 </h1>
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  67 <p>
  68 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
  69 systems.
  70 These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution.
  71 If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo.
  72 The list includes:
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  75 <ul>
  76 <li>3dfx/glide
  77 <li>Matrox
  78 <li>ATI R128
  79 <li>Savage
  80 <li>VIA Unichrome
  81 <li>SIS
  82 <li>3Dlabs gamma
  83 <li>DOS
  84 <li>fbdev
  85 <li>DEC/VMS
  86 </ul>
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