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Nathan Kidd0691b372014-01-03 16:44:00 -070017<h1>Acknowledgements</h1>
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000018
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20The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their
21contributions to Mesa over the years.
Brian Paul9f8b3fa2005-05-05 14:18:31 +000022This list is far from complete and somewhat dated, unfortunately.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000023
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26<li>Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +020027<a href="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html">
28SSEC Visualization Project</a> at the University of
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000029Wisconsin. He'd like to thank Bill Hibbard for letting him work on
30Mesa as part of that project.
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33<li>John Carmack of id Software, Inc. funded Keith Whitwell in 1999 in
34order to optimize Mesa's vertex transformation module. This is a very
35substantial piece of work.
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38<li>Precision Insight, Inc., VA Linux Systems, Inc., and most recently,
39Tungsten Graphics, Inc. have supported the ongoing development of Mesa.
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Brian Paul9f8b3fa2005-05-05 14:18:31 +000042<li>The
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +020043<a href="http://www.mesa3d.org">Mesa</a>
Brian Paul9f8b3fa2005-05-05 14:18:31 +000044website is hosted by
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +020045<a href="http://sourceforge.net">
Andreas Boll703a6622012-06-12 09:05:15 +020046<img src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=3&amp;type=1"
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Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000048<br>
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Briane3caa5f2007-04-18 09:07:56 -060051<li>The Mesa git repository is hosted by
Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +020052<a href="http://freedesktop.org/">freedesktop.org</a>.
Brian Paul9f8b3fa2005-05-05 14:18:31 +000053<br>
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Andreas Bolla73c59b2012-09-18 19:31:28 +020057<li><a href="http://www.altsoftware.com/">alt.software</a> contributed the Direct3D driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000058
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000059<li><b>Bernd Barsuhn</b> wrote the evaluator code for (splines,
60patches) in Mesa.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000061
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000062<li><b>Bernhard Tschirren</b> wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000063
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000064<li><b>Bogdan Sikorski</b> wrote the GLU NURBS and polygon tessellator
65in Mesa.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000066
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000067<li><b>Charlie Wallace</b> wrote the MS-DOS driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000068
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +000069<li><b>CJ Beyer</b> was the www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000070
71<li><b>Darren Abbott</b> provided the OS/2 driver.
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Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000073<li><b>David Bucciarelli</b> wrote and maintained the 3Dfx Glide
74driver. Thousands of Linux/Quake players thank David!
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000075
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000076<li><b>Gareth Hughes</b> wrote new GLU 1.2 Polygon Tessellation code
77(now superceded by SGI SI GLU).
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000078
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000079<li><b>Holger Waechtler</b> contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which
80accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1. Holger also implemented
81the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine extension.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000082
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000083<li><b>Jeroen van der Zijp</b> and <b>Thorsten Ohl</b> contributed the
84Xt/Motif widget code.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000085
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000086<li><b>John Stone</b> provided the multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000087
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000088<li><b>John Watson</b> assisted with web page design.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000089
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000090<li><b>Josh Vanderhoof</b> contributed Intel x86 assembly code which
91accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.x.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000092
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000093<li><b>Jouk Jansen</b> contributed and continues to maintain the VMS
94support.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000095
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +000096<li><b>Karl Schultz</b> has been maintaining the Windows driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +000097
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +000098<li><b>Keith Whitwell</b> has made extension contributions to Mesa
99since 1999.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000100
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000101<li><b>Kendall Bennett</b> wrote the SciTech MGL driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000102
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000103<li><b>Klaus Niederkrueger</b> contributed many improvements to Mesa's
104software rasterizer.
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106<li><b>Mark Kilgard</b> contributed antialiased line improvements and
107several extensions.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000108
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +0000109<li><b>Michael Pichler</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000110
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000111<li><b>Miklos Fazekas</b> wrote and maintains the Macintosh driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000112
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000113<li><b>Pascal Thibaudeau</b> wrote the NeXT driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000114
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000115<li><b>Pedro Vazquez</b> setup and maintains the Mesa Mailing list.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000116
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000117<li><b>Randy Frank</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000118
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000119<li><b>Stefan Zivkovic</b> wrote the Amiga driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000120
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000121<li><b>Stephane Rehel</b> provided the Cygnus Win32 support
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000122
123<li><b>Ted Jump</b> maintained the
124makefiles and project files for Windows 95/98/NT compilation for some time.
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Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000126<li><b>Uwe Maurer</b> wrote the LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000127
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000128<li><b>Victor Ng-Thow-Hing</b> wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga.
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133Apologies to anyone who's been omitted.
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