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11 <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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17 <h1>Supported Systems and Drivers</h1>
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
28 The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1
29 and ES 2, OpenVG and the EGL interface.
33 Hardware drivers include:
36 <li>Intel i965, i945, i915.
37 See <a href="http://intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html" target="_parent">
38 Intel's website</a></li>
39 <li>AMD Radeon series.
40 See <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature" target="_parent">RadeonFeature</a></li>
42 See <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org" target="_parent">Nouveau Wiki</a></li>
43 <li><a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/vmware" target="_parent">VMware virtual GPU</a></li>
47 Software drivers include:
50 <li><a href="llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a> - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code
51 generation and is multi-threaded
52 <li>softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
53 <li>swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
57 Additional driver information:
61 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/" target="_parent"> DRI hardware
62 drivers</a> for the X Window System
63 <li><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver</a> for the X Window System
64 and Unix-like operating systems
65 <li><a href="README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows</a>
66 <li><a href="vmware-guest.html">VMware</a> guest OS driver
71 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
75 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
77 These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution.
78 If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo.