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No other drivers use the vendor in the title or path, so it seems better to not do this for the vmware-guest driver as well. So let's rename it to SVGA instead. The actual text itself makes it clear enough what it is about. This makes it stand out less in the toctree. I chose the name "WMware SVGA3D", because that's less ambigious than the "SVGA"-alternative, and was requested by VMware people.t Reviewed-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa.rosenzweig@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Chia-I Wu <olvaffe@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jose Fonseca <jfonseca@vmware.com> Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/11109>
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Platforms and Drivers
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Mesa is primarily developed and used on Linux systems. But there's also
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support for Windows, other flavors of Unix and other systems such as
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Haiku. We're actively developing and maintaining several hardware and
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software drivers.
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The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES, Vulkan,
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EGL, OpenMAX, OpenCL, VDPAU, VA-API and XvMC.
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Hardware drivers include:
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- Intel GMA, HD Graphics, Iris. See `Intel's
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Website <https://01.org/linuxgraphics>`__
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- AMD Radeon series. See
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`RadeonFeature <https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature>`__
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- NVIDIA GPUs (Riva TNT and later). See `Nouveau
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Wiki <https://nouveau.freedesktop.org>`__
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- Qualcomm Adreno A2xx-A6xx. See `Freedreno
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Wiki <https://github.com/freedreno/freedreno/wiki>`__
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- Broadcom VideoCore 4, 5. See `This Week in
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V3D <https://anholt.github.io/twivc4/>`__
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- ARM Mali Utgard. See :doc:`Lima <drivers/lima>`
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- ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost. See :doc:`Panfrost <drivers/panfrost>`
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- Vivante GCxxx. See `Etnaviv
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Wiki <https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv/wiki>`__
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- NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later).
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Software drivers include:
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- :doc:`llvmpipe <drivers/llvmpipe>` - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code generation
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and is multi-threaded
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- softpipe - a reference Gallium driver
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- :doc:`svga <drivers/svga3d>` - driver for VMware virtual GPU
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- `swr <https://www.openswr.org/>`__ - x86-optimized software renderer
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for visualization workloads
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- `virgl <https://virgil3d.github.io/>`__ - research project for
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accelerated graphics for qemu guests
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- swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer
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Additional driver information:
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- `DRI hardware drivers <https://dri.freedesktop.org/>`__ for the X
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Window System
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- :doc:`Xlib / swrast driver <xlibdriver>` for the X Window System
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and Unix-like operating systems
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Deprecated Systems and Drivers
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------------------------------
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In the past there were other drivers for older GPUs and operating
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systems. These have been removed from the Mesa source tree and
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distribution. If anyone's interested though, the code can be found in
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the Git repo. The list includes:
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- 3dfx/glide
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- Matrox
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- ATI R128
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- Savage
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- VIA Unichrome
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- SIS
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- 3Dlabs gamma
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- DOS
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- fbdev
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- DEC/VMS
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- Mach64
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- Intel i810
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