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Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]9
Andreas Bollecd5c7c2012-06-12 09:05:03 +0200[diff] [blame]10<h1>Acknowledgments</h1>
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]11
12
13The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their
14contributions to Mesa over the years.
Brian Paul9f8b3fa2005-05-05 14:18:31 +0000[diff] [blame]15This list is far from complete and somewhat dated, unfortunately.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]16
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18<ul>
19<li>Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the
Andreas Boll210a27d2012-06-12 09:05:36 +0200[diff] [blame^]20<a href="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html"
21target="_parent">SSEC Visualization Project</a> at the University of
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]22Wisconsin. He'd like to thank Bill Hibbard for letting him work on
23Mesa as part of that project.
24<br>
25<br>
26<li>John Carmack of id Software, Inc. funded Keith Whitwell in 1999 in
27order to optimize Mesa's vertex transformation module. This is a very
28substantial piece of work.
29<br>
30<br>
31<li>Precision Insight, Inc., VA Linux Systems, Inc., and most recently,
32Tungsten Graphics, Inc. have supported the ongoing development of Mesa.
33<br>
34<br>
Brian Paul9f8b3fa2005-05-05 14:18:31 +0000[diff] [blame]35<li>The
Andreas Boll210a27d2012-06-12 09:05:36 +0200[diff] [blame^]36<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d" target="_parent">Mesa</a>
Brian Paul9f8b3fa2005-05-05 14:18:31 +0000[diff] [blame]37website is hosted by
Andreas Boll703a6622012-06-12 09:05:15 +0200[diff] [blame]38<a href="http://sourceforge.net" target="_parent">
39<img src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=3&amp;type=1"
40width="88" height="31" align="bottom" alt="Sourceforge.net" border="0"></a>
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]41<br>
42<br>
43
Briane3caa5f2007-04-18 09:07:56 -0600[diff] [blame]44<li>The Mesa git repository is hosted by
Brian Paul9f8b3fa2005-05-05 14:18:31 +0000[diff] [blame]45<a href="http://freedesktop.org/" target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a>.
46<br>
47<br>
48
49
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]50<li><a href="http://www.altsoftware.com/"
51target="_parent">alt.software</a> contributed the Direct3D driver.
52
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]53<li><b>Bernd Barsuhn</b> wrote the evaluator code for (splines,
54patches) in Mesa.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]55
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]56<li><b>Bernhard Tschirren</b> wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]57
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]58<li><b>Bogdan Sikorski</b> wrote the GLU NURBS and polygon tessellator
59in Mesa.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]60
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]61<li><b>Charlie Wallace</b> wrote the MS-DOS driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]62
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +0000[diff] [blame]63<li><b>CJ Beyer</b> was the www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]64
65<li><b>Darren Abbott</b> provided the OS/2 driver.
66
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]67<li><b>David Bucciarelli</b> wrote and maintained the 3Dfx Glide
68driver. Thousands of Linux/Quake players thank David!
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]69
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]70<li><b>Gareth Hughes</b> wrote new GLU 1.2 Polygon Tessellation code
71(now superceded by SGI SI GLU).
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]72
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]73<li><b>Holger Waechtler</b> contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which
74accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1. Holger also implemented
75the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine extension.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]76
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]77<li><b>Jeroen van der Zijp</b> and <b>Thorsten Ohl</b> contributed the
78Xt/Motif widget code.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]79
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]80<li><b>John Stone</b> provided the multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]81
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]82<li><b>John Watson</b> assisted with web page design.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]83
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]84<li><b>Josh Vanderhoof</b> contributed Intel x86 assembly code which
85accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.x.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]86
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]87<li><b>Jouk Jansen</b> contributed and continues to maintain the VMS
88support.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]89
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +0000[diff] [blame]90<li><b>Karl Schultz</b> has been maintaining the Windows driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]91
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]92<li><b>Keith Whitwell</b> has made extension contributions to Mesa
93since 1999.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]94
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]95<li><b>Kendall Bennett</b> wrote the SciTech MGL driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]96
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]97<li><b>Klaus Niederkrueger</b> contributed many improvements to Mesa's
98software rasterizer.
99
100<li><b>Mark Kilgard</b> contributed antialiased line improvements and
101several extensions.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]102
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +0000[diff] [blame]103<li><b>Michael Pichler</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]104
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]105<li><b>Miklos Fazekas</b> wrote and maintains the Macintosh driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]106
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]107<li><b>Pascal Thibaudeau</b> wrote the NeXT driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]108
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]109<li><b>Pedro Vazquez</b> setup and maintains the Mesa Mailing list.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]110
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]111<li><b>Randy Frank</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]112
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]113<li><b>Stefan Zivkovic</b> wrote the Amiga driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]114
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]115<li><b>Stephane Rehel</b> provided the Cygnus Win32 support
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]116
117<li><b>Ted Jump</b> maintained the
118makefiles and project files for Windows 95/98/NT compilation for some time.
119
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]120<li><b>Uwe Maurer</b> wrote the LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]121
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]122<li><b>Victor Ng-Thow-Hing</b> wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]123
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126<p>
127Apologies to anyone who's been omitted.
128Please send corrections and additions to Brian.
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