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Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025 (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 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.