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10<h1>Supported Systems and Drivers</h1>
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13Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems.
14But there's also support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other
15systems such as Haiku.
16We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and
17software drivers.
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21The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1
22and ES 2, OpenVG and the EGL interface.
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26Hardware drivers include:
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28<ul>
29<li>Intel i965, i945, i915.
30    See <a href="http://intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html" target="_parent">
31    Intel's website</a>
32<li>AMD Radeon series
33<li>Some NVIDIA GPus.
34<li>VMware virtual GPU
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38Software drivers include:
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41<li><a href="llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a> - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code
42    generation and is multi-threaded
43<li>softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
44<li>swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
45</ul>
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48Additional driver information:
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51<ul>
52<li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/" target="_parent"> DRI hardware
53drivers</a> for the X Window System
54<li><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver</a> for the X Window System
55and Unix-like operating systems
56<li><a href="README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows</a>
57<li><a href="vmware-guest.html">VMware</a> guest OS driver
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62Deprecated Systems and Drivers
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66In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
67systems.
68These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and distribution.
69If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in the git repo.
70The list includes:
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73<ul>
74<li>3dfx/glide
75<li>Matrox
76<li>ATI R128
77<li>Savage
78<li>VIA Unichrome
79<li>SIS
80<li>3Dlabs gamma
81<li>DOS
82<li>fbdev
83<li>DEC/VMS
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