Mesa for Android Container Forked From Mesa - The 3D Graphics Library English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 A Mesa build for containers on Android (PRoot, Chroot, LXC, Droidspaces, etc.), to support hardware acceleration with Adreno GPU. Features The Freedreno and Turnip driver in Mesa 26.0.0 and later versions supports Adreno 8xx GPU. Mesa drivers compiled in ARM64 Docker containers across multiple popular Linux distributions…
A Mesa build for containers on Android (PRoot, Chroot, LXC, Droidspaces, etc.), to support hardware acceleration with Adreno GPU.
Features
The Freedreno and Turnip driver in Mesa 26.0.0 and later versions supports Adreno 8xx GPU.
Mesa drivers compiled in ARM64 Docker containers across multiple popular Linux distributions offer better compatibility and can be used in PRoot, Chroot, Droidspaces, and LXC containers hosted on Android.
For some Adreno 6xx/7xx/8xx GPUs, the Freedreno driver can be used for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan, eliminating the need for Zink for graphics API call translation and significantly improving GPU utilization.
Only drivers relevant to the vast majority of Android devices are compiled to reduce the package size.
Supports hardware video decoding and encoding through Termux:VA. You can follow this guide to try it out: Termux:VA User Guide
Compatibility
This section only displays GPU models confirmed to be supported through actual testing by me and others, it does not mean that other GPU models are unsupported. You can search for your device’s GPU model in the freedreno_devices.py file (for example, search for 725 for Adreno 725). If the model has a complete device definition, it is likely supported. You are welcome to share how the driver runs on your device in Issues, which will help us improve the table below.
This project’s Releases provide two types of installation packages: one installable via the Linux distribution’s package manager, and another that must be installed by direct extraction. If you need the latest Mesa features (such as Adreno 8xx support) or Anland support, please use an installation package of version 26.3.0 or newer.
If the Turnip driver from the standard release (whose release title doesn’t have the turnip- prefix) fails to work properly, you can use the unpatched Turnip driver (whose release title does have the turnip- prefix) by directly installing it over the standard one.
PS: The term “unpatched” mentioned in this project refers to the original patches from xMeM not being applied; however, some necessary patches (such as those for additional GPU support) will still be applied.
Using the Package Manager
Depending on your Linux distribution, go to Releases and download all corresponding packages for a specific release, then follow the installation instructions provided in the release notes. Below are the latest releases for some popular Linux distributions:
The .tar.gz installation packages in Releases can only overwrite the existing Mesa drivers. To uninstall, you must manually delete the extracted files. These packages are intended for testing purposes only.
Currently, the “Direct Extraction” way supports the following Linux distributions:
Linux Distribution
Installation package filename suffix
Notes
Debian 13
debian_trixie_arm64
Debian testing
debian_testing_arm64
Currently Debian 14
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
ubuntu_noble_arm64
Ubuntu 25.10
ubuntu_questing_arm64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
ubuntu_resolute_arm64
Ubuntu rolling
ubuntu_rolling_arm64
Currently Ubuntu 26.10
Fedora 43
fedora_43_arm64
Fedora 44
fedora_44_arm64
Fedora 45
fedora_45_arm64
Arch Linux
archlinux_arm64
Void Linux
void_arm64
Alpine 3.24
alpine_3.24_arm64
openSUSE Tumbleweed
opensuse_tumbleweed_arm64
deepin 25
deepin_crimson_arm64
AOSC OS
aosc_arm64
NixOS
nixos_arm64
Currently NixOS 26.05
SteamOS
steamos_arm64
Builds use the main branch of the package repository
Go to Releases and download the .tar.gz installation packages. Please note the Linux distribution suffix in the filename, such as debian_trixie_arm64. You can only install the package that matches your distribution.
Standard Installation Package
Unpatched Turnip Installation Package (usually not needed)
For Adreno 7XX & 8XX, it should no longer be necessary to install unpatched Turnip drivers now. Patched Turnip from the standard release should work properly.
If you need the latest possible Mesa upstream features, you can use the Turnip weekly builds: turnip-weekly
turnip-weekly can be used together with standard installation packages (those whose Release titles do not have the turnip- prefix), or it can be used alone (usually with better compatibility). When used alone, you need to change the value of the environment variable MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE from kgsl to zink.
Note 注意
turnip-weekly is built weekly by GitHub Actions by pulling upstream mainline code and is released directly without testing, so various issues may occur. These issues are usually because upstream has not yet finished developing a certain feature, and it is necessary to wait for upstream to complete the development of that feature to resolve them. Therefore, when encountering issues with turnip-weekly, you can switch to other versions of the driver or wait for the next week’s build.
Extract the installation package directly to the root directory.
sudo tar -zxvf mesa-for-android-container_26.2.0-devel-xxxxxxxx_debian_trixie_arm64.tar.gz -C /
Refresh the dynamic linker cache.
sudo ldconfig
Uninstallation can be performed by referring to the following commands:
# Copy the file list output by this command
tar tf mesa-for-android-container_26.2.0-devel-xxxxxxxx_debian_trixie_arm64.tar.gz | grep -v '/$' | tr '\n' ' ' ; echo
cd /
# Replace <file-list> with the actual file list
sudo rm <file-list>
# Reinstall the distribution-maintained Mesa drivers
# Debian or Ubuntu:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --reinstall libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglx-mesa0 mesa-libgallium mesa-vulkan-drivers
# Fedora:
sudo dnf reinstall mesa-filesystem mesa-libglapi mesa-libgbm mesa-libEGL mesa-libGL mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-dri-drivers mesa-libOpenCL
# Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -S mesa mesa-docs opencl-mesa vulkan-freedreno vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers vulkan-mesa-layers
Usage
Specify the environment variable MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE when running a specific program, as follows:
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=kgsl glmark2
Alternatively, add it to the /etc/environment file so it’s loaded automatically when the container starts:
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=kgsl
Tip 提示
If screen tearing issues occur when running certain programs or games, you can add the following two environment variables to force-enable vertical sync:
vblank_mode=3 MESA_VK_WSI_PRESENT_MODE=mailbox
Versions 27.0.0-devel-20261025 and later enable present wait fence by default for X11 and XWayland to avoid screen tearing in some applications and games. This may affect peak performance. If you do not need this feature, set MESA_DRI3_DISABLE_PRESENT_WAIT_FENCE=1.
Development
If you are a developer and want to build the drivers from this project or contribute code, please refer to the development documentation.
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