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Platforms and Drivers
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Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems. But there's also
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support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other systems such as
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Haiku. We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and
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software drivers.
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The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1, ES2
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and ES 3, OpenCL, VDPAU, XvMC and the EGL interface.
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Hardware drivers include:
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- Intel GMA, HD Graphics, Iris. See `Intel's
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Website <https://01.org/linuxgraphics>`__
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- AMD Radeon series. See
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`RadeonFeature <https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature>`__
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- NVIDIA GPUs (Riva TNT and later). See `Nouveau
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Wiki <https://nouveau.freedesktop.org>`__
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- Qualcomm Adreno A2xx-A6xx. See `Freedreno
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Wiki <https://github.com/freedreno/freedreno/wiki>`__
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- Broadcom VideoCore 4, 5. See `This Week in
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V3D <https://anholt.github.io/twivc4/>`__
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- ARM Mali Utgard. See `Lima
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Wiki <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima/web/wikis/home>`__
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- ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost. See `Panfrost
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Site <https://panfrost.freedesktop.org/>`__
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- Vivante GCxxx. See `Etnaviv
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Wiki <https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv/wiki>`__
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- NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later).
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Software drivers include:
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- :doc:`llvmpipe <drivers/llvmpipe>` - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code generation
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and is multi-threaded
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- softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
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- :doc:`svga <drivers/vmware-guest>` - driver for VMware virtual GPU
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- `swr <https://www.openswr.org/>`__ - x86-optimized software renderer
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for visualization workloads
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- `virgl <https://virgil3d.github.io/>`__ - research project for
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accelerated graphics for qemu guests
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- swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
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Additional driver information:
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- `DRI hardware drivers <https://dri.freedesktop.org/>`__ for the X
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Window System
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- :doc:`Xlib / swrast driver <xlibdriver>` for the X Window System
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and Unix-like operating systems
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- `Microsoft Windows <README.WIN32>`__
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Deprecated Systems and Drivers
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In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
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systems. These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and
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distribution. If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in
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the Git repo. The list includes:
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- 3dfx/glide
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- Matrox
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- ATI R128
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- Savage
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- VIA Unichrome
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- SIS
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- 3Dlabs gamma
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- DOS
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- fbdev
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- DEC/VMS
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- Mach64
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- Intel i810
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