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Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]9
Andreas Bollecd5c7c2012-06-12 09:05:03 +0200[diff] [blame]10<h1>Supported Systems and Drivers</h1>
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]11
12<p>
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]13Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems.
14But there's also support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other
15systems such as Haiku.
16We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and
17software drivers.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]18</p>
19
Brian Paulb7c727e2005-08-19 16:57:50 +0000[diff] [blame]20<p>
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]21The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1
22and ES 2, OpenVG and the EGL interface.
Brian Paulb7c727e2005-08-19 16:57:50 +0000[diff] [blame]23</p>
24
25<p>
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]26Hardware drivers include:
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]27</p>
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]28<ul>
Andreas Boll398d8be2012-06-25 21:53:01 +0200[diff] [blame]29 <li>Intel i965, i945, i915.
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]30 See <a href="http://intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html" target="_parent">
Andreas Boll398d8be2012-06-25 21:53:01 +0200[diff] [blame]31 Intel's website</a></li>
32 <li>AMD Radeon series.
33 See <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature" target="_parent">RadeonFeature</a></li>
34 <li>NVIDIA GPUs.
35 See <a href="http://nouveau.freedesktop.org" target="_parent">Nouveau Wiki</a></li>
36 <li><a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/vmware" target="_parent">VMware virtual GPU</a></li>
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]37</ul>
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]38
39<p>
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]40Software drivers include:
41</p>
42<ul>
43<li><a href="llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a> - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code
44 generation and is multi-threaded
45<li>softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
46<li>swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
47</ul>
48
49<p>
50Additional driver information:
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]51</p>
52
Andreas Boll210a27d2012-06-12 09:05:36 +0200[diff] [blame]53<ul>
Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]54<li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/" target="_parent"> DRI hardware
55drivers</a> for the X Window System
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]56<li><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver</a> for the X Window System
Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]57and Unix-like operating systems
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]58<li><a href="README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows</a>
59<li><a href="vmware-guest.html">VMware</a> guest OS driver
Andreas Boll210a27d2012-06-12 09:05:36 +0200[diff] [blame]60</ul>
Brian Paulb6c41fd2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700[diff] [blame]61
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]62
63<h1>
64Deprecated Systems and Drivers
65</h1>
66
67<p>
68In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
69systems.
70These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution.
71If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo.
72The list includes:
73</p>
74
75<ul>
76<li>3dfx/glide
77<li>Matrox
78<li>ATI R128
79<li>Savage
80<li>VIA Unichrome
81<li>SIS
82<li>3Dlabs gamma
83<li>DOS
84<li>fbdev
85<li>DEC/VMS
Andreas Bolldf2be222012-06-12 09:05:22 +0200[diff] [blame]86</ul>
Brian Pauld01de082012-02-09 18:05:52 -0700[diff] [blame]87
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]88</body>
Adam Jacksond78834b2005-11-03 20:49:07 +0000[diff] [blame]89</html>