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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 i965, i945, i915.
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>
41 See
<a href=
"https://nouveau.freedesktop.org">Nouveau Wiki
</a></li>
42 <li><a href=
"https://www.x.org/wiki/vmware">VMware virtual GPU
</a></li>
46 Software drivers include:
49 <li><a href=
"llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe
</a> - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code
50 generation and is multi-threaded
51 <li>softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
52 <li>swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
56 Additional driver information:
60 <li><a href=
"https://dri.freedesktop.org/"> DRI hardware
61 drivers
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62 <li><a href=
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</a> for the X Window System
63 and Unix-like operating systems
64 <li><a href=
"README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows
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65 <li><a href=
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</a> guest OS driver
70 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
74 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
76 These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution.
77 If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo.