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