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10 <h1>Supported Systems and Drivers</h1>
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
21 The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1
22 and ES 2, OpenVG and the EGL interface.
26 Hardware drivers include:
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>
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>
40 Software drivers include:
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
50 Additional driver information:
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
64 Deprecated Systems and Drivers
68 In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
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.