The llama-cpp-localai-paged backend reused backend/cpp/llama-cpp's LLAMA_VERSION,
which .github/workflows/bump_deps.yaml auto-bumps nightly to the latest
ggml-org/llama.cpp master tip. The stock backend is patch-free so that bump is
safe, but the paged backend applies a vendored patch series
(backend/cpp/llama-cpp/patches/paged/) hand-verified bit-exact against ONE
specific tip. A naive bump moves the tip out from under the patches and breaks
'git apply' at build time - a dep-bump PR would go red (or, worse, the break
surfaces later in a release build).
Mirror the turboquant precedent: give the paged wrapper its OWN LLAMA_VERSION
pin (the verified 9d5d882d) and force it into every copied build via
LLAMA_VERSION=$(LLAMA_VERSION), so the nightly stock bump no longer drags the
paged build to an unverified tip. Unlike turboquant (whose fork branch carries
the patches and is safe to auto-bump), the paged series is vendored, so it gets
NO bump_deps.yaml entry: it is advanced only by the manual PIN_SYNC process.
Add cross-referencing comments in both Makefiles and bump_deps.yaml.
Also add PIN_BUMP_APPLY_CHECK.md: an apply-feasibility report for the latest tip
(c299a92c, 23 commits ahead). The full series applies CLEAN under 'git apply'
with only benign line offsets and zero conflicts; the lone failure (0019) is a
pre-existing stray dev-doc hunk, identical on the current pin, not a bump
regression.
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
New backend = stock llama-cpp grpc-server + the paged patchset (forces LLAMA_PAGED=on),
shipped as its own meta-backend (mirrors turboquant, simpler: no fork pin, no
grpc-server patching - the paged runtime hooks already exist in grpc-server.cpp).
Stock llama-cpp untouched (LLAMA_PAGED?=on retained; the de-risk flip deferred for
sign-off). Gallery: qwen3.6-27b-nvfp4 (dense) + qwen3.6-35b-a3b-nvfp4 (MoE) with the
benchmark run config (paged_kv, max_batch_tokens, parallel, flash_attention, f16),
mudler/ GGUF uris (sha256 TODO until publish). Importer dropdown entry + tests.
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
