docs/systems.rst

   1 Platforms and Drivers
   2 =====================
   3
   4 Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems. But there's also
   5 support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other systems such as
   6 Haiku. We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and
   7 software drivers.
   8
   9 The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1, ES2
  10 and ES 3, OpenVG, OpenCL, VDPAU, XvMC and the EGL interface.
  11
  12 Hardware drivers include:
  13
  14 -  Intel GMA, HD Graphics, Iris. See `Intel's
  15    Website <https://01.org/linuxgraphics>`__
  16 -  AMD Radeon series. See
  17    `RadeonFeature <https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature>`__
  18 -  NVIDIA GPUs (Riva TNT and later). See `Nouveau
  19    Wiki <https://nouveau.freedesktop.org>`__
  20 -  Qualcomm Adreno A2xx-A6xx. See `Freedreno
  21    Wiki <https://github.com/freedreno/freedreno/wiki>`__
  22 -  Broadcom VideoCore 4, 5. See `This Week in
  23    V3D <https://anholt.github.io/twivc4/>`__
  24 -  ARM Mali Utgard. See `Lima
  25    Wiki <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima/web/wikis/home>`__
  26 -  ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost. See `Panfrost
  27    Site <https://panfrost.freedesktop.org/>`__
  28 -  Vivante GCxxx. See `Etnaviv
  29    Wiki <https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv/wiki>`__
  30 -  NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later).
  31
  32 Software drivers include:
  33
  34 -  :doc:`llvmpipe <gallium/drivers/llvmpipe>` - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code generation
  35    and is multi-threaded
  36 -  softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
  37 -  :doc:`svga <vmware-guest>` - driver for vmware virtual gpu
  38 -  `swr <https://www.openswr.org/>`__ - x86-optimized software renderer
  39    for visualization workloads
  40 -  `virgl <https://virgil3d.github.io/>`__ - research project for
  41    accelerated graphics for qemu guests
  42 -  swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
  43
  44 Additional driver information:
  45
  46 -  `DRI hardware drivers <https://dri.freedesktop.org/>`__ for the X
  47    Window System
  48 -  :doc:`Xlib / swrast driver <xlibdriver>` for the X Window System
  49    and Unix-like operating systems
  50 -  `Microsoft Windows <README.WIN32>`__
  51
  52 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
  53 ------------------------------
  54
  55 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
  56 systems. These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and
  57 distribution. If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in
  58 the git repo. The list includes:
  59
  60 -  3dfx/glide
  61 -  Matrox
  62 -  ATI R128
  63 -  Savage
  64 -  VIA Unichrome
  65 -  SIS
  66 -  3Dlabs gamma
  67 -  DOS
  68 -  fbdev
  69 -  DEC/VMS
  70 -  Mach64
  71 -  Intel i810