Mesa is hosted by and was initiated in August 1993 by Brian Paul, who is still active in the project. An open-source effort to write a Mesa Nvidia driver called Nouveau is developed mostly by the community.īesides 3D applications such as games, modern display servers ( X.org's Glamor or Wayland's Weston) use OpenGL/ EGL therefore all graphics typically go through Mesa. Proprietary graphics drivers (e.g., Nvidia GeForce driver and Catalyst) replace all of Mesa, providing their own implementation of a graphics API.
Its most important users are two graphics drivers mostly developed and funded by Intel and AMD for their respective hardware (AMD promotes their Mesa drivers Radeon and RadeonSI over the deprecated AMD Catalyst, and Intel has only supported the Mesa driver). Mesa translates these specifications to vendor-specific graphics hardware drivers.
Mesa, also called Mesa3D and The Mesa 3D Graphics Library, is an open source implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics API specifications. Cross-platform ( BSDs, Haiku, Linux, etc.)
