Semantic Coherence: The Mesa 3D Graphics Library – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

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Featured APIs
Featured APIs

OpenGL is a cross-platform, industry standard graphics programming API for 3D graphics.

OpenGL ES is the mobile subset of OpenGL. It's supported on all major mobile platforms, and is also the base for WebGL.

Vulkan is the next-generation graphics programming API from The Khronos® Group.

EGL is an interface between Khronos rendering APIs such as OpenGL or OpenVG and the underlying native platform window system.

OpenCL is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs and other processors or hardware accelerators.

VA-API is an open-source library and API specification, which provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities for video processing.

[H5] Note

Even though Mesa provides implementations of the APIs listed above,
not all combinations of drivers and APIs are formally conformant to
their respective specifications.

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Supported Drivers

[H3] Hardware

AMD R300
The R300 driver supports AMD's Radeon R300 GPU series.

AMD R600
The R600 driver supports AMD's Radeon HD 2000 GPU series. It's officially supported by AMD, and is one of two Linux drivers for the hardware.
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AMD RadeonSI
The RadeonSI OpenGL and OpenCL driver supports AMD's Southern Island GPUs and later. It's officially supported by AMD, and is one of two Linux drivers for the hardware.
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AMD RADV
The AMD RADV Vulkan driver supports AMD's GCN and RDNA GPUs. It's not officially supported by AMD, but it's based on public information provided by AMD.
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Broadcom V3D
The V3D OpenGL driver supports Broadcom's VC5 and later GPUs, which is found in the Raspberry Pi 4. It's officially supported by Broadcom, and is the official Linux driver for the hardware.
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Broadcom V3DV
The V3DV Vulkan driver supports Broadcom's VC5 and later GPUs, similar to the V3D driver.
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Broadcom VC4
The VC4 driver supports Broadcom's VC4 GPU, which is found among other other things in most of the Raspberry Pis. It's officially supported by Broadcom, and is one of two Linux drivers for the hardware.
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Etnaviv
The Etnaviv driver supports the Vivante GCxxx series of embedded GPUs. It's a reverse-engineered, community-developed driver, and is not endorsed by Vivante.
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Freedreno
The Freedreno driver supports the Qualcomm Adreno GPUs, from the A2xx series to the A6xx series. It's a reverse-engineered, community-developed driver, and is not endorsed by Qualcomm.
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Intel ANV
The ANV vulkan driver supports Intel's Gen 7 hardware and later. It's officially supported by Intel and is their official Vulkan driver for Linux.
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Intel Iris
The Iris driver supports Intel's Gen 8 hardware and later. It's officially supported by Intel and is their next-generation Linux OpenGL driver.
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Intel Crocus
The Crocus driver supports Intel's Gen 7 hardware and earlier. It's based on Iris and the former i965 driver, but is not officially supported or endorsed by Intel.

Lima
Lima is a free and open source driver for the ARM Mali-4xx family of GPUs. It's a reverse-engineered, community-developed driver, and is not endorsed by ARM.
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Nouveau
The Nouveau drivers supports a large set of NVIDIA chips, ranging from NV04 found in the Riva TNT card to NVF0 found in the GeForce GTX 780, as well as most of the Tegra GPUs. It's a reverse-engineered, community-developed driver, and is not endorsed by NVIDIA.
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NVK
NVK is a Vulkan driver for NVIDIA Maxwell (some GTX 700 and 800 series, most 900 series) and later GPUs. It is not endorsed by NVIDIA.
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Panfrost
Panfrost is a free and open source driver for the ARM Mali Midgard, Bifrost and Valhall GPUs. It's a community-developed driver, built with support from Arm.
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Imagination Technologies PowerVR
The PowerVR Vulkan driver supports Imagination Technologies' PowerVR Rogue GPUs. It's officially supported by Imagination Technologies.
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[H3] Layered Drivers

Microsoft D3D12
The D3D12 driver is a Gallium driver that emits D3D12 API calls instead of targeting a specific GPU architecture. This can be used to get full desktop OpenGL support on devices that only support D3D12, as well as providing hardware acceleration for applications running under WSL.
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VMware SVGA3D
The SVGA3D driver gives a Linux virtual machine access to the host GPU for hardware-accellerated 3D when running either on VMware hypervisors (Workstation, Fusion, and ESX). It's officially supported by VMware.
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Venus
The Venus driver is a virtual Vulkan GPU driver for sharing a GPU with a host for virtual machines. It uses Vulkan on the host to accelerate rendering.
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VirGL
The VirGL driver is a virtual OpenGL GPU driver for sharing a GPU with a host for virtual machines. It uses OpenGL or OpenGL ES on the host to accelerate rendering.
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Zink
The Zink driver is a Gallium driver that emits Vulkan API calls instead of targeting a specific GPU architecture. This can be used to get full desktop OpenGL support on devices that only support Vulkan.
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[H3] Software rendering

LLVMPipe
The LLVMPipe driver is a high-performance software renderer. It's useful for systems without a dedicated GPU, or in the process of bringing up a platform. It uses LLVM as a code-generator to dynamically compile efficient machine code for the CPU.
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Softpipe
The Softpipe driver is a reference software rasterizer; it's slow but accurate. It's mostly useful for testing, and on systems that lack support for LLVM.

[H3] Legacy drivers

[H5] Note
Several drivers has been removed from the main branch, and now live on in the Amber branch where they are community maintained and only receive critical fixes.

AMD R200
The R200 driver supports AMD's Radeon R200 GPU series.

i915
The i915 driver supports Intel's GMA 915G as well as the i830, i845 and i865 integrated GPU series.

Intel i965
The i965 driver supports Intel's Gen 4 hardware and later. It's used to be officially supported by Intel, but these days you should be using Iris or Crocus instead.

OpenSWR
The OpenSWR driver is a high performance, highly scalable software renderer targeted towards visualization workloads.

[H2] Latest news
[H3] Mesa 26.1.1 is released
May 19, 2026
Mesa 26.1.1 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H3] Mesa 26.0.7 is released
May 14, 2026
Mesa 26.0.7 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H3] Mesa 26.1.0 is released
May 6, 2026
Mesa 26.1.0 is released. This is a new development release. See the release notes for more information about this release.
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[H1] News

[H2] Mesa 26.1.1 is released
May 19, 2026
Mesa 26.1.1 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H2] Mesa 26.0.7 is released
May 14, 2026
Mesa 26.0.7 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H2] Mesa 26.1.0 is released
May 6, 2026
Mesa 26.1.0 is released. This is a new development release. See the release notes for more information about this release.
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[H2] Mesa 26.0.6 is released
April 29, 2026
Mesa 26.0.6 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H2] Mesa 26.0.5 is released
April 15, 2026
Mesa 26.0.5 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H2] Mesa 26.0.4 is released
April 3, 2026
Mesa 26.0.4 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H2] Mesa 26.0.3 is released
March 18, 2026
Mesa 26.0.3 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H2] Mesa 26.0.2 is released
March 12, 2026
Mesa 26.0.2 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H2] Mesa 26.0.1 is released
February 25, 2026
Mesa 26.0.1 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H2] Mesa 25.3.6 is released
February 20, 2026
Mesa 25.3.6 is released. This is a bug fix release.
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[H1] About Mesa3D.org
This website consist of three parts:
www.mesa3d.org: This is the landing-site for
the Mesa3D project. It contains some introductory information about the
project, but consists mostly of links elsewhere.
It’s maintained as a Hugo website, and its
source-code can be found here.
docs.mesa3d.org: This is the technical
documentation for the current version of Mesa3D. It consists of a lot more
in-depth information about how Mesa3D works, and how to use it.
It’s maintained as a set of Sphinx
documentation, and it’s source code can be found in the
doc/ folder
of the main mesa repository.
archive.mesa3d.org: This is the archive of
releases of Mesa3D. This hosts the tarballs of all Mesa3D releases.
If you want to do changes to either of the first two sites, please submit a
merge-request to the respective repository.

[H1] Developers
Both professional and volunteer developers contribute to Mesa.
Some of the companies that has made significant contributions
include (sorted alphabetically):
AMD
Collabora
Google
Igalia
Intel
Red Hat
Valve
VMware
[H2] Contractors
The following companies can be contacted for custom Mesa / 3D graphics
development (sorted alphabetically):
Collabora
Igalia
LunarG
[H2] Volunteers
Volunteers have made significant contributions to all parts of Mesa,
including complete device drivers.
There’s really too many to mention here, and the list keeps on changing
but you can see an up-to-date list of significant contributors on our
GitLab here.