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
- 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 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