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20 Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems.
21 But there's also support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other
22 systems such as Haiku.
23 We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and
28 The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES
1, ES2
29 and ES
3, OpenVG, OpenCL, VDPAU, XvMC and the EGL interface.
33 Hardware drivers include:
36 <li>Intel GMA, HD Graphics, Iris.
37 See
<a href=
"https://01.org/linuxgraphics">Intel's Website
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38 <li>AMD Radeon series.
39 See
<a href=
"https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature">RadeonFeature
</a></li>
40 <li>NVIDIA GPUs (Riva TNT and later).
41 See
<a href=
"https://nouveau.freedesktop.org">Nouveau Wiki
</a></li>
42 <li>Qualcomm Adreno A2xx-A6xx.
43 See
<a href=
"https://github.com/freedreno/freedreno/wiki">Freedreno Wiki
</a></li>
44 <li>Broadcom VideoCore
4,
5.
45 See
<a href=
"https://anholt.github.io/twivc4/">This Week in V3D
</a></li>
47 See
<a href=
"https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima/web/wikis/home">Lima Wiki
</a></li>
48 <li>ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost.
49 See
<a href=
"https://panfrost.freedesktop.org/">Panfrost Site
</a></li>
51 See
<a href=
"https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv/wiki">Etnaviv Wiki
</a></li>
52 <li>NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later).
</li>
56 Software drivers include:
59 <li><a href=
"llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe
</a> - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code
60 generation and is multi-threaded
61 <li>softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
62 <li><a href=
"vmware-guest.html">svga
</a> - driver for vmware virtual gpu
63 <li><a href=
"https://www.openswr.org/">swr
</a> - x86-optimized
64 software renderer for visualization workloads
65 <li><a href=
"https://virgil3d.github.io/">virgl
</a> - research
66 project for accelerated graphics for qemu guests
67 <li>swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
71 Additional driver information:
75 <li><a href=
"https://dri.freedesktop.org/"> DRI hardware
76 drivers
</a> for the X Window System
77 <li><a href=
"xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver
</a> for the X Window System
78 and Unix-like operating systems
79 <li><a href=
"README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows
</a>
84 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
88 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
90 These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution.
91 If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo.