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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, Vulkan,
EGL, OpenCL and VA-API.
Hardware drivers include:
Intel GMA, HD Graphics, Iris. See
Intel’s
Website
AMD Radeon series. See
RadeonFeature
NVIDIA GPUs (Maxwell and later). See
NVK
Qualcomm Adreno 2xx-8xx. See
Freedreno
Broadcom VideoCore 4 and 5. See
VC4
and
V3D
ARM Mali Utgard. See
Lima
ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost. See
Panfrost
Vivante GCxxx. See
Etnaviv
Wiki
Older NVIDIA GPUs (GeForce 5 / FX and later). See
Nouveau
Wiki
NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later).
Layered drivers include:
D3D12
- driver providing OpenGL on top of
Microsoft’s Direct3D 12 API.
KosmicKrisp
- driver providing Vulkan
on top of Apple’s Metal API.
SVGA3D
- driver for VMware virtual GPU
VirGL
- project for accelerated graphics for
QEMU guests
Zink
- driver providing OpenGL on top of
Khronos’ Vulkan API.
Software drivers include:
LLVMpipe
- uses LLVM for JIT code generation
and is multi-threaded
Softpipe - a reference Gallium driver with a shader interpreter.
Additional driver information:
DRI hardware drivers
for the X
Window System
Xlib driver
for the X Window System
and Unix-like operating systems
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
3DLABS Gamma
ATI Mach 64
ATI Rage 128
ATI Radeon 7000 - 9250
DEC OpenVMS
Intel i810
Intel i830 - i865
Linux Framebuffer
Matrox
MS-DOS
NVIDIA Riva TNT - GeForce 4
S3 Savage
Silicon Integrated Systems
swrast
VIA Unichrome
VDPAU
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