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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>
  32 <li>AMD Radeon series
  33 <li>Some NVIDIA GPus.
  34 <li>VMware virtual GPU
  35 </ul>
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  37 <p>
  38 Software drivers include:
  39 </p>
  40 <ul>
  41 <li><a href="llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a> - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code
  42     generation and is multi-threaded
  43 <li>softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
  44 <li>swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
  45 </ul>
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  47 <p>
  48 Additional driver information:
  49 </p>
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  51 <ul>
  52 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/" target="_parent"> DRI hardware
  53 drivers</a> for the X Window System
  54 <li><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver</a> for the X Window System
  55 and Unix-like operating systems
  56 <li><a href="README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows</a>
  57 <li><a href="vmware-guest.html">VMware</a> guest OS driver
  58 </ul>
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  61 <h1>
  62 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
  63 </h1>
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  65 <p>
  66 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
  67 systems.
  68 These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution.
  69 If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo.
  70 The list includes:
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  73 <ul>
  74 <li>3dfx/glide
  75 <li>Matrox
  76 <li>ATI R128
  77 <li>Savage
  78 <li>VIA Unichrome
  79 <li>SIS
  80 <li>3Dlabs gamma
  81 <li>DOS
  82 <li>fbdev
  83 <li>DEC/VMS
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