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   9 <H1>Supported Systems and Drivers</H1>
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  12 Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems.
  13 But there's also support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other
  14 systems such as Haiku.
  15 We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and
  16 software drivers.
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  20 The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1
  21 and ES 2, OpenVG and the EGL interface.
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  25 Hardware drivers include:
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  27 <ul>
  28 <li>Intel i965, i945, i915.
  29     See <a href="http://intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html" target="_parent">
  30     Intel's website</a>
  31 <li>AMD Radeon series
  32 <li>Some NVIDIA GPus.
  33 <li>VMware virtual GPU
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  37 Software drivers include:
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  40 <li><a href="llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a> - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code
  41     generation and is multi-threaded
  42 <li>softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
  43 <li>swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
  44 </ul>
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  47 Additional driver information:
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  51 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/" target="_parent"> DRI hardware
  52 drivers</a> for the X Window System
  53 <li><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver</a> for the X Window System
  54 and Unix-like operating systems
  55 <li><a href="README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows</a>
  56 <li><a href="vmware-guest.html">VMware</a> guest OS driver
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  61 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
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  64 <p>
  65 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
  66 systems.
  67 These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution.
  68 If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo.
  69 The list includes:
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  73 <li>3dfx/glide
  74 <li>Matrox
  75 <li>ATI R128
  76 <li>Savage
  77 <li>VIA Unichrome
  78 <li>SIS
  79 <li>3Dlabs gamma
  80 <li>DOS
  81 <li>fbdev
  82 <li>DEC/VMS
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