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# 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, OpenCL, VDPAU and VA-API.

Hardware drivers include:

- Intel GMA, HD Graphics, Iris. See Intel’s Website

- AMD Radeon series. See RadeonFeature

- NVIDIA GPUs (GeForce 5 / FX and later). See Nouveau Wiki

- Qualcomm Adreno 2xx-6xx. See Freedreno

- Broadcom VideoCore 4 and 5. See VC4 and V3D

- ARM Mali Utgard. See Lima

- ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost. See Panfrost

- Vivante GCxxx. See Etnaviv Wiki

- NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later).

Layered driver include:

- D3D12 - driver providing OpenGL on top of Microsoft’s Direct3D 12 API.

- SVGA3D - driver for VMware virtual GPU

- VirGL - project for accelerated graphics for QEMU guests

- Zink - driver providing OpenGL on top of Khronos’ Vulkan API.

Software drivers include:

- LLVMpipe - uses LLVM for JIT code generation and is multi-threaded

- Softpipe - a reference Gallium driver

Additional driver information:

- DRI hardware drivers for the X Window System

- Xlib driver 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

- ATI Radeon 7000 - 9250

- DEC OpenVMS

- Intel i810

- Intel i830 - i865

- Linux Framebuffer

- Matrox

- MS-DOS

- NVIDIA Riva TNT - GeForce 4

- S3 Savage

- Silicon Integrated Systems

- swrast

- VIA Unichrome