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  11   <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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  17 <h1>Supported Systems and Drivers</h1>
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  19 <p>
  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
  24 software drivers.
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  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.
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  33 Hardware drivers include:
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  35 <ul>
  36   <li>Intel i965, i945, i915.
  37     See <a href="http://intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html">
  38       Intel's website</a></li>
  39   <li>AMD Radeon series.
  40   See <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature">RadeonFeature</a></li>
  41   <li>NVIDIA GPUs.
  42   See <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org">Nouveau Wiki</a></li>
  43   <li><a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/vmware">VMware virtual GPU</a></li>
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  47 Software drivers include:
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  49 <ul>
  50 <li><a href="llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a> - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code
  51     generation and is multi-threaded
  52 <li>softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
  53 <li>swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
  54 </ul>
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  57 Additional driver information:
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  60 <ul>
  61 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/"> DRI hardware
  62 drivers</a> for the X Window System
  63 <li><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver</a> for the X Window System
  64 and Unix-like operating systems
  65 <li><a href="README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows</a>
  66 <li><a href="vmware-guest.html">VMware</a> guest OS driver
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  71 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
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  74 <p>
  75 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
  76 systems.
  77 These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution.
  78 If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo.
  79 The list includes:
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  82 <ul>
  83 <li>3dfx/glide
  84 <li>Matrox
  85 <li>ATI R128
  86 <li>Savage
  87 <li>VIA Unichrome
  88 <li>SIS
  89 <li>3Dlabs gamma
  90 <li>DOS
  91 <li>fbdev
  92 <li>DEC/VMS
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