* feat(llama-cpp): single x86 CPU build via ggml CPU_ALL_VARIANTS
Replace the per-microarch avx/avx2/avx512/fallback multi-binary build on
x86 with a single grpc-server plus the dlopen-able libggml-cpu-*.so set
that ggml's backend registry selects at runtime by probing host CPU
features. One build instead of four, broader microarch coverage (adds
alderlake AVX-VNNI, zen4 AVX512-BF16, sapphirerapids AMX), and the
shell-side /proc/cpuinfo probing in run.sh goes away.
Build/link notes:
- CPU_ALL_VARIANTS requires GGML_BACKEND_DL + BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON, so
ggml/llama become shared objects. SHARED_LIBS is now a make variable
(default OFF) so the override survives the recursive sub-make into the
VARIANT build dir instead of being re-clobbered by the base flags.
- The cpu-all target also builds "--target ggml": the per-microarch
backends are runtime-dlopened, not link deps, so they only compile via
ggml's add_dependencies().
- hw_grpc_proto is pinned STATIC. Under BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON it would
otherwise become a DSO referencing hidden-visibility symbols in the
static libprotobuf.a, which fails to link ("hidden symbol ... is
referenced by DSO"). Keeping it static links gRPC/protobuf into the
executable while only ggml/llama stay shared, so no PIC or base-image
change is required.
- package.sh bundles the libggml-*.so set into package/lib; ggml finds
them by scanning the bundled ld.so directory (/proc/self/exe), which
run.sh launches from.
Scope: x86 only. arm64/darwin keep the single fallback build. The
ik-llama-cpp / turboquant forks and the other ggml C++ backends are
unchanged; the same recipe applies but is out of scope here.
Validated with a full docker build plus a live inference smoke test:
the model loads, ggml selects the AVX512_BF16 variant on a Zen-class
host, and tokens generate correctly.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
* feat(llama-cpp,turboquant): extend CPU_ALL_VARIANTS to arm64 + turboquant
- llama-cpp: x86 AND arm64 now use the single llama-cpp-cpu-all build
(only hipblas keeps the fallback build). ggml's arm64 variant table
(armv8.x / armv9.x, plus apple_m* on darwin) is selected at runtime.
- turboquant: same recipe via a turboquant-cpu-all target. turboquant
copies backend/cpp/llama-cpp's CMakeLists.txt + Makefile per flavor, so
the hw_grpc_proto STATIC fix and the SHARED_LIBS / EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS
make-vars are inherited; the target just passes SHARED_LIBS=ON, the DL
flags and --target ggml through, then collects the .so set. run.sh and
package.sh updated to ship/select turboquant-cpu-all.
- Makefile lib-collection find now also matches *.dylib (for the darwin
build, which emits dylibs rather than .so).
ik-llama-cpp is intentionally left unchanged: its pinned ggml has no
CPU_ALL_VARIANTS support and its IQK kernels require AVX2, so the
per-microarch dynamic backend set does not apply.
Scope still excludes the darwin packaging wiring (separate change).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
* feat(llama-cpp,turboquant): arm64 gcc-14 for SME variants + darwin cpu-all packaging
- arm64: ggml CPU_ALL_VARIANTS builds armv9.2 SME variants whose -march=...+sme
is rejected by the Ubuntu 24.04 default gcc-13. Build the arm64 variants with
gcc-14 (installed in the compile step). The host only selects a variant it
actually supports at runtime, but every variant must still compile.
- darwin: scripts/build/llama-cpp-darwin.sh builds llama-cpp-cpu-all instead of
the fallback binary, keeps Metal (GGML_METAL stays ON; --target ggml also builds
ggml-metal). The per-microarch libggml-cpu-*.dylib are placed in the package
root next to the binary (darwin has no bundled ld.so, so ggml's executable-dir
scan looks there), while the other shared dylibs go in lib/ for DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
* fix(llama-cpp-darwin): distribute ggml backends by suffix (.so root, .dylib lib)
ggml emits its loadable backends (per-microarch CPU variants, metal, blas) with a
.so suffix even on darwin, while the core libraries (ggml-base/ggml/llama/
llama-common/mtmd) use .dylib. Split the distribution by suffix: .so DL backends
go in the package root for ggml's executable-directory scan, .dylib core libs go
in lib/ for DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. The previous .dylib name-pattern matched none of the
variants.
Verified on an M4: ggml loads the apple_m4 CPU variant (SME=1) and Metal, model
loads and generates correct tokens.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
* fix(llama-cpp,turboquant): only CPU_ALL_VARIANTS for pure-CPU builds, GPU uses fallback
The previous gate sent every non-hipblas build through llama-cpp-cpu-all, so the
GPU image builds (cublas, sycl_f16/f32, vulkan, nvidia l4t) compiled the whole CPU
microarch variant matrix on top of their already-huge GPU backend - blowing the
build time (the sycl job was only 59% done after 2h11m) - and the arm64 l4t build
failed at `apt-get install gcc-14` (exit 100) on the Jetson base.
Gate on an empty BUILD_TYPE instead: only the pure CPU image (build-type: '' in
.github/backend-matrix.yml) builds the CPU_ALL_VARIANTS set; every GPU build gets a
single fallback CPU grpc-server, since the accelerator does the compute. This also
confines the arm64 gcc-14 step (needed for the armv9.2 SME variants) to the CPU
build, away from the GPU base images.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
* docs(llama-cpp): correct run.sh comment for arm64/darwin cpu-all
arm64 and darwin CPU images now also ship llama-cpp-cpu-all (not fallback-only);
only GPU images ship fallback-only. Fix the stale comment to match.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
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The shared grpc-server CMakeLists hardcoded `llama-common`, the post-rename
target name in upstream llama.cpp. The turboquant fork branched before that
rename and still exposes the helpers library as `common`, so the name
silently degraded to a plain `-llama-common` link flag, the PUBLIC include
directory was never propagated, and tools/server/server-task.h failed to
find common.h during turboquant-<flavor> builds.
Upstream llama.cpp (45cac7ca) renamed the CMake library target
`common` to `llama-common`. Linking the old name caused
`target_include_directories(... PUBLIC .)` from the common/ dir
to not propagate, so `#include "common.h"` failed when building
grpc-server.
* Build llama.cpp separately
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* WIP
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* WIP
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* WIP
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* Start to try to attach some tests
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* Add git and small fixups
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* fix: correctly autoload external backends
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* Try to run AIO tests
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* Slightly update the Makefile helps
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* Adapt auto-bumper
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* Try to run linux test
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* Add llama-cpp into build pipelines
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* Add default capability (for cpu)
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* Drop llama-cpp specific logic from the backend loader
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* drop grpc install in ci for tests
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* fixups
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* Pass by backends path for tests
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* Build protogen at start
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* fix(tests): set backends path consistently
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* Correctly configure the backends path
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* Try to build for darwin
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* WIP
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* Compile for metal on arm64/darwin
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* Try to run build off from cross-arch
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* Add to the backend index nvidia-l4t and cpu's llama-cpp backends
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* Build also darwin-x86 for llama-cpp
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* Disable arm64 builds temporary
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* Test backend build on PR
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* Fixup build backend reusable workflow
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* pass by skip drivers
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* Use crane
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* Skip drivers
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* Fixups
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* x86 darwin
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* Add packaging step for llama.cpp
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* fixups
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* Fix leftover from bark-cpp extraction
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* Try to fix hipblas build
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