WalterCool 9145ddb955 hip: fix bf16 WMMA operand vector type for gfx11/gfx12 (#30885)
The __builtin_amdgcn_wmma_f32_16x16x16_bf16_w32 (and _gfx12) builtins
take their A/B operands as vectors of short (_ExtVector<16, short> /
_ExtVector<8, short>), not __bf16. Declaring the fragments as
ext_vector_type(N) __bf16 fails to compile:

  error: cannot initialize a parameter of type 'short
  __attribute__((ext_vector_type(16)))' with an lvalue of type 'const
  bf16x16_t' (vector of 16 '__bf16' values)

short and __bf16 are both 16-bit and the value is only ever passed to
the builtin via reinterpret_cast over raw bytes, so changing the element
type is bit-identical. The operand type has been short since the builtin
was introduced, so this works across LLVM/ROCm versions without a
version gate. Fixes HIP builds for RDNA3 (gfx1150/1151) and RDNA4
(gfx1200/1201).

Signed-off-by: Pablo Cholaky <waltercool@slash.cl>
2026-10-23 23:31:28 +02:00
2026-10-23 07:46:53 -07:00
2026-06-12 15:53:26 +02:00
2026-10-17 02:11:56 +02:00
2026-02-02 08:38:55 +02:00

llama.cpp

llama

Quick start

A few options to get llama.cpp installed on your machine:

# curl
curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh

# powershell
irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

Once installed:

# Download and run a model directly from Hugging Face
llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF

# Launch OpenAI-compatible API server
llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
VLM session with `llama cli` VLM session with llama cli Built-in web UI against `llama serve` running Qwen 3.6 Built-in web UI against llama serve

Description

The main goal of llama.cpp is to enable LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of hardware - locally and in the cloud.

  • Plain C/C++ implementation without any dependencies
  • Apple silicon is a first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate and Metal frameworks
  • AVX, AVX2, AVX512 and AMX support for x86 architectures
  • RVV, ZVFH, ZFH, ZICBOP and ZIHINTPAUSE support for RISC-V architectures
  • 1.5-bit, 2-bit, 3-bit, 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit, and 8-bit integer quantization for faster inference and reduced memory use
  • Custom CUDA kernels for running LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs (support for AMD GPUs via HIP and Moore Threads GPUs via MUSA)
  • Vulkan and SYCL backend support
  • CPU+GPU hybrid inference to partially accelerate models larger than the total VRAM capacity

The llama.cpp project is build on top of the ggml library.

Supported backends

Backend Target devices
BLAS All
BLIS All
CANN Ascend NPU
CUDA Nvidia GPU
HIP AMD GPU
Hexagon Snapdragon
IBM zDNN IBM Z & LinuxONE
MUSA Moore Threads GPU
Metal Apple Silicon
OpenCL Adreno GPU
OpenVINO [In Progress] Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
RPC All
SYCL Intel GPU
VirtGPU VirtGPU APIR
Vulkan GPU
WebGPU All
ZenDNN AMD CPU

Documentation

Tools

Development

Contributing

  • Contributors can open PRs
  • Collaborators will be invited based on contributions
  • Maintainers can push to branches in the llama.cpp repo and merge PRs into the master branch
  • Any help with managing issues, PRs and projects is very appreciated!
  • Read the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information

Acknowledgements

  • yhirose/cpp-httplib - Single-header HTTP server, used by llama-server - MIT license
  • nothings/stb - Single-header image format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • nlohmann/json - Single-header JSON library, used by various tools/examples - MIT License
  • mackron/miniaudio - Single-header audio format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • sheredom/subprocess.h - Single-header process launching solution for C and C++ - Public domain
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