// the take
A frozen 2017 snapshot/mirror of the Mesa 3D graphics library (OpenGL/EGL/GLES plus the gallium driver stack) hosted by notaz, who's known for embedded/emulator work. It reads less like a project and more like a pinned reference point someone used as a base for patching Mesa for a specific ARM/embedded target.
The full upstream source tree is there — gallium drivers (r600, radeonsi, i965, etc.), EGL/GLES/GL headers, Vulkan ICD headers — so it's a complete, buildable checkout rather than a partial mirror. The fork-to-star ratio (472 forks, 34 stars) is the actually interesting signal: people forked it to build on, not to bookmark, which fits a mirror used as a shared base for downstream patches.
The README isn't a README — it's AMD's MPEG-2/H.264 patent and warranty boilerplate, with zero explanation of what this mirror is for, why it exists, or how it diverges from upstream freedesktop.org Mesa. Dead since March 2017, so it predates nearly a decade of Mesa driver and Vulkan work; nothing here reflects current hardware support. No commit history context or docs pointing to what notaz actually changed, so anyone landing on this has to go spelunking through the 472 forks to figure out the real purpose instead of just reading upstream Mesa directly.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →