1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 2 <html lang="en"> 3 <head> 4 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 5 <title>Supported Systems and Drivers</title> 6 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css"> 7 </head> 8 <body> 9 10 <h1>Supported Systems and Drivers</h1> 11 12 <p> 13 Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems. 14 But there's also support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other 15 systems such as Haiku. 16 We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and 17 software drivers. 18 </p> 19 20 <p> 21 The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1 22 and ES 2, OpenVG and the EGL interface. 23 </p> 24 25 <p> 26 Hardware drivers include: 27 </p> 28 <ul> 29 <li>Intel i965, i945, i915. 30 See <a href="http://intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html" target="_parent"> 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> 37 </ul> 38 39 <p> 40 Software 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> 50 Additional driver information: 51 </p> 52 53 <ul> 54 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/" target="_parent"> DRI hardware 55 drivers</a> for the X Window System 56 <li><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver</a> for the X Window System 57 and Unix-like operating systems 58 <li><a href="README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows</a> 59 <li><a href="vmware-guest.html">VMware</a> guest OS driver 60 </ul> 61 62 63 <h1> 64 Deprecated Systems and Drivers 65 </h1> 66 67 <p> 68 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating 69 systems. 70 These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution. 71 If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo. 72 The 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 86 </ul> 87 88 </body> 89 </html> 90
