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  17 <h1>Platforms 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 GMA, HD Graphics, Iris.
  37     See <a href="https://01.org/linuxgraphics">Intel's Website</a></li>
  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>
  46   <li>ARM Mali Utgard.
  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>
  50   <li>Vivante GCxxx.
  51     See <a href="https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv/wiki">Etnaviv Wiki</a></li>
  52   <li>NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later).</li>
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  56 Software drivers include:
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  58 <ul>
  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
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  71 Additional driver information:
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  74 <ul>
  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>
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  84 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
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  87 <p>
  88 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
  89 systems.
  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.
  92 The list includes:
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  96 <li>3dfx/glide
  97 <li>Matrox
  98 <li>ATI R128
  99 <li>Savage
 100 <li>VIA Unichrome
 101 <li>SIS
 102 <li>3Dlabs gamma
 103 <li>DOS
 104 <li>fbdev
 105 <li>DEC/VMS
 106 <li>Mach64
 107 <li>Intel i810
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