| 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, OpenMAX, OpenCL, VDPAU, VA-API and XvMC. |
| |
| 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 :doc:`Freedreno |
| <drivers/freedreno>` |
| - Broadcom VideoCore 4 and 5. See :doc:`VC4 <drivers/vc4>` and |
| :doc:`V3D <drivers/v3d>` |
| - ARM Mali Utgard. See :doc:`Lima <drivers/lima>` |
| - 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). |
| |
| Layered driver include: |
| |
| - :doc:`D3D12 <drivers/d3d12>` - driver providing OpenGL on top of |
| Microsoft's Direct3D 12 API. |
| - :doc:`SVGA3D <drivers/svga3d>` - driver for VMware virtual GPU |
| - :doc:`VirGL <drivers/virgl>` - project for accelerated graphics for |
| QEMU guests |
| - :doc:`Zink <drivers/zink>` - driver providing OpenGL on top of |
| Khoronos' Vulkan API. |
| |
| Software drivers include: |
| |
| - :doc:`LLVMpipe <drivers/llvmpipe>` - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code generation |
| and is multi-threaded |
| - Softpipe - a reference Gallium driver |
| |
| 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 |
| |
| 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 |
| - DEC OpenVMS |
| - Intel i810 |
| - Linux fbdev |
| - Matrox |
| - MS-DOS |
| - S3 Savage |
| - Silicon Integrated Systems |
| - swrast |
| - VIA Unichrome |
