| 1 | Platforms and Drivers
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| 2 | =====================
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| 3 |
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| 4 | Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems. But there's also
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| 5 | support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other systems such as
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| 6 | Haiku. We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and
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| 7 | software drivers.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES, Vulkan,
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| 10 | EGL, OpenMAX, OpenCL, VDPAU, VA-API and XvMC.
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| 11 |
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| 12 | Hardware drivers include:
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| 13 |
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| 14 | - Intel GMA, HD Graphics, Iris. See `Intel's
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| 15 | Website <https://01.org/linuxgraphics>`__
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| 16 | - AMD Radeon series. See
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| 17 | `RadeonFeature <https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature>`__
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| 18 | - NVIDIA GPUs (Riva TNT and later). See `Nouveau
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| 19 | Wiki <https://nouveau.freedesktop.org>`__
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| 20 | - Qualcomm Adreno A2xx-A6xx. See :doc:`Freedreno
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| 21 | <drivers/freedreno>`
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| 22 | - Broadcom VideoCore 4 and 5. See :doc:`VC4 <drivers/vc4>` and
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| 23 | :doc:`V3D <drivers/v3d>`
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| 24 | - ARM Mali Utgard. See :doc:`Lima <drivers/lima>`
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| 25 | - ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost. See :doc:`Panfrost <drivers/panfrost>`
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| 26 | - Vivante GCxxx. See `Etnaviv
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| 27 | Wiki <https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv/wiki>`__
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| 28 | - NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later).
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| 29 |
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| 30 | Layered driver include:
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| 31 |
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| 32 | - :doc:`D3D12 <drivers/d3d12>` - driver providing OpenGL on top of
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| 33 | Microsoft's Direct3D 12 API.
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| 34 | - :doc:`SVGA3D <drivers/svga3d>` - driver for VMware virtual GPU
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| 35 | - `VirGL <https://virgil3d.github.io/>`__ - research project for
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| 36 | accelerated graphics for qemu guests
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| 37 | - :doc:`Zink <drivers/zink>` - driver providing OpenGL on top of
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| 38 | Khoronos' Vulkan API.
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| 39 |
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| 40 | Software drivers include:
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| 41 |
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| 42 | - :doc:`LLVMpipe <drivers/llvmpipe>` - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code generation
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| 43 | and is multi-threaded
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| 44 | - Softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
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| 45 | - :doc:`OpenSWR <drivers/openswr>` - x86-optimized software renderer
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| 46 | for visualization workloads
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| 47 |
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| 48 | Additional driver information:
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| 49 |
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| 50 | - `DRI hardware drivers <https://dri.freedesktop.org/>`__ for the X
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| 51 | Window System
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| 52 | - :doc:`Xlib / swrast driver <xlibdriver>` for the X Window System
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| 53 | and Unix-like operating systems
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| 54 |
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| 55 | Deprecated Systems and Drivers
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| 56 | ------------------------------
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| 57 |
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| 58 | In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
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| 59 | systems. These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and
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| 60 | distribution. If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in
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| 61 | the Git repo. The list includes:
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| 62 |
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| 63 | - 3dfx Glide
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| 64 | - 3DLABS Gamma
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| 65 | - ATI Mach 64
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| 66 | - ATI Rage 128
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| 67 | - DEC OpenVMS
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| 68 | - Intel i810
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| 69 | - Linux fbdev
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| 70 | - Matrox
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| 71 | - MS-DOS
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| 72 | - S3 Savage
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| 73 | - Silicon Integrated Systems
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| 74 | - swrast
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| 75 | - VIA Unichrome
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