OpenHarmony/third_party_mesa3d
2
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

docs: update intro.html to mention new APIs, etc

Browse Source 
Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
This commit is contained in:
Brian Paul
2017-02-08 12:31:44 -07:00
committed by Eric Engestrom
parent b2722a8970
commit ac5845453c
1 changed files with 31 additions and 11 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

42
docs/intro.html
View File

@@ -17,22 +17,31 @@
<h1>Introduction</h1>
<p>
Mesa is an open-source implementation of the
The Mesa project began as an open-source implementation of the
<a href="http://www.opengl.org/">OpenGL</a> specification -
a system for rendering interactive 3D graphics.
</p>
<p>
A variety of device drivers allows Mesa to be used in many different
environments ranging from software emulation to complete hardware acceleration
for modern GPUs.
Over the years the project has grown to implement more graphics APIs,
including
<a href="http://www.khronos.org/opengles/">OpenGL ES</a> (versions 1, 2, 3),
<a href="http://www.khronos.org/opencl/">OpenCL</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU">VDPAU</a> and
<a href="http://www.khronos.org/vulkan/">Vulkan</a>.
</p>
<p>
Mesa ties into several other open-source projects: the
<a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/">Direct Rendering
Infrastructure</a> and <a href="http://x.org">X.org</a> to
provide OpenGL support to users of X on Linux, FreeBSD and other operating
A variety of device drivers allows the Mesa libraries to be used in many
different environments ranging from software emulation to complete hardware
acceleration for modern GPUs.
</p>
<p>
Mesa ties into several other open-source projects: the
<a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/">Direct Rendering
Infrastructure</a> and <a href="http://x.org">X.org</a> to
provide OpenGL support on Linux, FreeBSD and other operating
systems.
</p>
@@ -152,14 +161,22 @@ February 2012: Mesa 8.0 is released, implementing the OpenGL 3.0 specification
and version 1.30 of the OpenGL Shading Language.
</p>
<p>
July 2016: Mesa 12.0 is released, including OpenGL 4.3 support and initial
support for Vulkan for Intel GPUs. Plus, there's another gallium software
driver ("swr") based on LLVM and developed by Intel.
</p>
<p>
Ongoing: Mesa is the OpenGL implementation for several types of hardware
made by Intel, AMD and NVIDIA, plus the VMware virtual GPU.
There's also several software-based renderers: swrast (the legacy
Mesa rasterizer), softpipe (a gallium reference driver) and llvmpipe
(LLVM/JIT-based high-speed rasterizer).
Mesa rasterizer), softpipe (a gallium reference driver), llvmpipe
(LLVM/JIT-based high-speed rasterizer) and swr (another LLVM-based driver).
</p>
<p>
Work continues on the drivers and core Mesa to implement newer versions
of the OpenGL specification.
of the OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan specifications.
</p>
@@ -178,6 +195,9 @@ of the OpenGL specification is implemented.
Version 12.x of Mesa implements the OpenGL 4.3 API, but not all drivers
support OpenGL 4.3.
</p>
<p>
Initial support for Vulkan is also included.
</p>
<h2>Version 11.x features</h2>