Platforms and Drivers
-Supported Systems and Drivers
++Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems. +But there's also support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other +systems such as Haiku. +We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and +software drivers. +
-Mesa was originally designed for Unix/X11 systems and is still best -supported on those systems. All you need is an ANSI C compiler and the -X development environment to use Mesa. +The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1, ES2 +and ES 3, OpenVG, OpenCL, VDPAU, XvMC and the EGL interface.
-The DRI hardware drivers for the X.org server and XFree86 provide -hardware accelerated rendering for chips from ATI, Intel, Matrox, 3dfx -and others on Linux and FreeBSD. +Hardware drivers include:
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- Intel GMA, HD Graphics, Iris. + See Intel's Website +
- AMD Radeon series. + See RadeonFeature +
- NVIDIA GPUs (Riva TNT and later). + See Nouveau Wiki +
- Qualcomm Adreno A2xx-A6xx. + See Freedreno Wiki +
- Broadcom VideoCore 4, 5. + See This Week in V3D +
- ARM Mali Utgard. + See Lima Wiki +
- ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost. + See Panfrost Site +
- Vivante GCxxx. + See Etnaviv Wiki +
- NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later). +
-Drivers for other assorted platforms include: -the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, BeOS, NeXT, OS/2, MS-DOS, VMS, Windows -9x/NT, and Direct3D. +Software drivers include:
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- llvmpipe - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code + generation and is multi-threaded +
- softpipe - a reference Gallium driver +
- svga - driver for vmware virtual gpu +
- swr - x86-optimized + software renderer for visualization workloads +
- virgl - research + project for accelerated graphics for qemu guests +
- swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer +
-Details about particular drivers follows: +Additional driver information:
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- DRI hardware
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- DRI hardware drivers for the X Window System -
- Xlib software driver for the X Window System +
- Xlib / swrast driver for the X Window System and Unix-like operating systems -
- Microsoft Windows (README.WIN32) -
- DEC VMS (README.VMS) -
- Microsoft Windows +
Deprecated Systems
++Deprecated Systems and Drivers +
-These drivers have not been maintained and are being deprecated. -They can be saved if someone steps up to help. +In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating +systems. +These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution. +If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo. +The list includes:
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- 3dfx/Glide (README.3DFX) -
- GGI (README.GGI) -
- Amiga Amiwin (README.AMIWIN) -
- BeOS (README.BEOS) -
- Direct3D driver (README.D3D) -
- DJGPP (README.DJ) -
- LynxOS (README.LYNXOS) -
- Mingw32 (README.MINGW32) -
- NeXT (README.NeXT) -
- OpenStep (README.OpenStep) -
- OS/2 (README.OS2) -
- WindML (README.WINDML) -
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- 3dfx/glide +
- Matrox +
- ATI R128 +
- Savage +
- VIA Unichrome +
- SIS +
- 3Dlabs gamma +
- DOS +
- fbdev +
- DEC/VMS +
- Mach64 +
- Intel i810 +