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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="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.
  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>
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  46 Software drivers include:
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  48 <ul>
  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
  53 </ul>
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  56 Additional driver information:
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  60 <li><a href="https://dri.freedesktop.org/"> DRI hardware
  61 drivers</a> for the X Window System
  62 <li><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver</a> for the X Window System
  63 and Unix-like operating systems
  64 <li><a href="README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows</a>
  65 <li><a href="vmware-guest.html">VMware</a> guest OS driver
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  70 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
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  73 <p>
  74 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
  75 systems.
  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.
  78 The list includes:
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  82 <li>3dfx/glide
  83 <li>Matrox
  84 <li>ATI R128
  85 <li>Savage
  86 <li>VIA Unichrome
  87 <li>SIS
  88 <li>3Dlabs gamma
  89 <li>DOS
  90 <li>fbdev
  91 <li>DEC/VMS
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