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Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025 (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 62 points 6 days ago (2 children)

For anyone like me:

Mesa, also called Mesa3D and The Mesa 3D Graphics Library, is an open source implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics API specifications as well as OpenCL. Mesa translates these specifications to vendor-specific graphics hardware drivers.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 54 points 6 days ago

This stuff is like the backbone of how games work. Without it there is no pretty pixels on the screen. Really great work being done

[–] Narann@jlai.lu 6 points 4 days ago

Very rough example of OpenGL, with Nvidia.

On Windows:

Game do OpenGL calls -> [Nvidia OpenGL Wrapper -> Nvidia internal driver call] -> Nvidia Firmware/Hardware

The [...] section is made inside nvogvl64.dll.

On Linux:

Game do OpenGL calls -> Mesa3D OpenGL Wrapper -> Nouveau internal call -> Nvidia Firmware/Hardware

Here Nouveau is the open source Nvidia driver, but it can be radeonsi for AMD.