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+Platforms and Drivers
+=====================
+
+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.
+
+The primary API is OpenGL but there's also support for OpenGL ES, Vulkan,
+EGL, OpenCL and VA-API.
+
+Hardware drivers include:
+
+-  Intel GMA, HD Graphics, Iris. See `Intel's
+   Website <https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/open/overview.html>`__
+-  AMD Radeon series. See
+   `RadeonFeature <https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature>`__
+-  NVIDIA GPUs (Maxwell and later). See :doc:`NVK <drivers/nvk>`
+-  Qualcomm Adreno 2xx-8xx. See :doc:`Freedreno
+   <drivers/freedreno>`
+-  Broadcom VideoCore 4 and 5. See :doc:`VC4 <drivers/vc4>` and
+   :doc:`V3D <drivers/v3d>`
+-  ARM Mali Utgard. See :doc:`Lima <drivers/lima>`
+-  ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost. See :doc:`Panfrost <drivers/panfrost>`
+-  Vivante GCxxx. See `Etnaviv
+   Wiki <https://github.com/etnaviv/etna_viv>`__
+-  Older NVIDIA GPUs (GeForce 5 / FX and later). See `Nouveau
+   Wiki <https://nouveau.freedesktop.org>`__
+-  NVIDIA Tegra (K1 and later).
+
+Layered drivers include:
+
+-  :doc:`D3D12 <drivers/d3d12>` - driver providing OpenGL on top of
+   Microsoft's Direct3D 12 API.
+-  :doc:`KosmicKrisp <drivers/kosmickrisp>` - driver providing Vulkan
+   on top of Apple's Metal API.
+-  :doc:`SVGA3D <drivers/svga3d>` - driver for VMware virtual GPU
+-  :doc:`VirGL <drivers/virgl>` - project for accelerated graphics for
+   QEMU guests
+-  :doc:`Zink <drivers/zink>` - driver providing OpenGL on top of
+   Khronos' Vulkan API.
+
+Software drivers include:
+
+-  :doc:`LLVMpipe <drivers/llvmpipe>` - uses LLVM for JIT code generation
+   and is multi-threaded
+-  Softpipe - a reference Gallium driver with a shader interpreter.
+
+Additional driver information:
+
+-  `DRI hardware drivers <https://dri.freedesktop.org/>`__ for the X
+   Window System
+-  :doc:`Xlib driver <xlibdriver>` for the X Window System
+   and Unix-like operating systems
+
+Deprecated Systems and Drivers
+------------------------------
+
+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:
+
+-  3dfx Glide
+-  3DLABS Gamma
+-  ATI Mach 64
+-  ATI Rage 128
+-  ATI Radeon 7000 - 9250
+-  DEC OpenVMS
+-  Intel i810
+-  Intel i830 - i865
+-  Linux Framebuffer
+-  Matrox
+-  MS-DOS
+-  NVIDIA Riva TNT - GeForce 4
+-  S3 Savage
+-  Silicon Integrated Systems
+-  swrast
+-  VIA Unichrome
+-  VDPAU