Platforms and Drivers — The Mesa 3D Graphics Library latest documentation (2024)

Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems. But there’s alsosupport for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other systems such asHaiku. We’re actively developing and maintaining several hardware andsoftware drivers.

The primary API is OpenGL but there’s also support for OpenGL ES, Vulkan,EGL, OpenMAX, OpenCL, VDPAU and VA-API.

Hardware drivers include:

• Intel GMA, HD Graphics, Iris. See Intel’sWebsite

• AMD Radeon series. SeeRadeonFeature

• NVIDIA GPUs (GeForce 5 / FX and later). See NouveauWiki

• Qualcomm Adreno 2xx-6xx. See Freedreno

• Broadcom VideoCore 4 and 5. See VC4 andV3D

• ARM Mali Utgard. See Lima

• ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost. See Panfrost

  See Also

  Getting MesonThe Meson Build systemInstalling MESA — MESA main documentationHow to compile the Linux Kernel Driver

• Vivante GCxxx. See EtnavivWiki

• NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later).

Layered driver include:

• D3D12 - driver providing OpenGL on top ofMicrosoft’s Direct3D 12 API.

• SVGA3D - driver for VMware virtual GPU

• VirGL - project for accelerated graphics forQEMU guests

• Zink - driver providing OpenGL on top ofKhronos’ Vulkan API.

Software drivers include:

• LLVMpipe - uses LLVM for JIT code generationand is multi-threaded

• Softpipe - a reference Gallium driver

  See Also

  The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Installing and Using Meson

Additional driver information:

• DRI hardware drivers for the XWindow System

• Xlib driver for the X Window Systemand Unix-like operating systems