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diff --git a/mesalib/docs/systems.html b/mesalib/docs/systems.html index 035a48962..62a6e0b52 100644 --- a/mesalib/docs/systems.html +++ b/mesalib/docs/systems.html @@ -9,34 +9,78 @@ <H1>Supported Systems and Drivers</H1> <p> -Mesa was originally designed for Unix/X11 systems and is still best -supported on those systems. All you need is an ANSI C compiler and the -X development environment to use Mesa. +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. </p> <p> -The DRI hardware drivers for the X.org server and XFree86 provide -hardware accelerated rendering for chips from ATI, Intel, and NVIDIA -on Linux and FreeBSD. +The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES 1 +and ES 2, OpenVG and the EGL interface. </p> <p> -Drivers for other assorted platforms include: -the Apple Macintosh and Windows. +Hardware drivers include: </p> +<ul> +<li>Intel i965, i945, i915. + See <a href="http://intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html" target="_parent"> + Intel's website</a> +<li>AMD Radeon series +<li>Some NVIDIA GPus. +<li>VMware virtual GPU +</ul> <p> -Details about particular drivers follows: +Software drivers include: +</p> +<ul> +<li><a href="llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a> - uses LLVM for x86 JIT code + generation and is multi-threaded +<li>softpipe - a reference Gallium driver +<li>swrast - the legacy/original Mesa software rasterizer +</ul> + +<p> +Additional driver information: </p> <UL> <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/" target="_parent"> DRI hardware drivers</a> for the X Window System -<LI><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib software driver</a> for the X Window System +<li><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib / swrast driver</a> for the X Window System and Unix-like operating systems -<LI>Microsoft Windows <A HREF="README.WIN32">(README.WIN32)</A> -<LI>DEC VMS <A HREF="README.VMS">(README.VMS)</A> +<li><a href="README.WIN32">Microsoft Windows</a> +<li><a href="vmware-guest.html">VMware</a> guest OS driver </UL> + +<h1> +Deprecated Systems and Drivers +</h1> + +<p> +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: +</p> + +<ul> +<li>3dfx/glide +<li>Matrox +<li>ATI R128 +<li>Savage +<li>VIA Unichrome +<li>SIS +<li>3Dlabs gamma +<li>DOS +<li>fbdev +<li>DEC/VMS +<ul> + </body> </html> |