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ollama37/llama/patches/0020-Disable-ggml-blas-on-macos-v13-and-older.patch
Shang Chieh Tseng ef14fb5b26 Sync with upstream ollama/ollama and restore Tesla K80 (compute 3.7) support
This commit represents a complete rework after pulling the latest changes from
official ollama/ollama repository and re-applying Tesla K80 compatibility patches.

## Key Changes

### CUDA Compute Capability 3.7 Support (Tesla K80)
- Added sm_37 (compute 3.7) to CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES in CMakeLists.txt
- Updated CMakePresets.json to include compute 3.7 in "CUDA 11" preset
- Using 37-virtual (PTX with JIT compilation) for maximum compatibility

### Legacy Toolchain Compatibility
- **NVIDIA Driver**: 470.256.02 (last version supporting Kepler/K80)
- **CUDA Version**: 11.4.4 (last CUDA 11.x supporting compute 3.7)
- **GCC Version**: 10.5.0 (required by CUDA 11.4 host_config.h)

### CPU Architecture Trade-offs
Due to GCC 10.5 limitation, sacrificed newer CPU optimizations:
- Alderlake CPU variant enabled WITHOUT AVX_VNNI (requires GCC 11+)
- Still supports: SSE4.2, AVX, F16C, AVX2, BMI2, FMA
- Performance impact: ~3-7% on newer CPUs (acceptable for K80 compatibility)

### Build System Updates
- Modified ml/backend/ggml/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/CMakeLists.txt for compute 3.7
- Added -Wno-deprecated-gpu-targets flag to suppress warnings
- Updated ml/backend/ggml/ggml/src/CMakeLists.txt for Alderlake without AVX_VNNI

### Upstream Sync
Merged latest llama.cpp changes including:
- Enhanced KV cache management with ISWA and hybrid memory support
- Improved multi-modal support (mtmd framework)
- New model architectures (Gemma3, Llama4, Qwen3, etc.)
- GPU backend improvements for CUDA, Metal, and ROCm
- Updated quantization support and GGUF format handling

### Documentation
- Updated CLAUDE.md with comprehensive build instructions
- Documented toolchain constraints and CPU architecture trade-offs
- Removed outdated CI/CD workflows (tesla-k80-*.yml)
- Cleaned up temporary development artifacts

## Rationale

This fork maintains Tesla K80 GPU support (compute 3.7) which was dropped in
official Ollama due to legacy driver/CUDA requirements. The toolchain constraint
creates a deadlock:
- K80 → Driver 470 → CUDA 11.4 → GCC 10 → No AVX_VNNI

We accept the loss of cutting-edge CPU optimizations to enable running modern
LLMs on legacy but still capable Tesla K80 hardware (12GB VRAM per GPU).

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2025-11-05 14:03:05 +08:00

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From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2025 10:00:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Disable ggml-blas on macos v13 and older
---
ggml/src/ggml-blas/ggml-blas.cpp | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-blas/ggml-blas.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-blas/ggml-blas.cpp
index 5b888cdd..2a9ff7f6 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-blas/ggml-blas.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-blas/ggml-blas.cpp
@@ -506,6 +506,11 @@ static const struct ggml_backend_reg_i ggml_backend_blas_reg_i = {
};
ggml_backend_reg_t ggml_backend_blas_reg(void) {
+ // MacOS prior to v14 does not include cblas_sgemm - disable this backend if it isn't available
+ if (&cblas_sgemm == NULL) {
+ GGML_LOG_INFO("Disabling ggml-blas backend on old MacOS version\n");
+ return NULL;
+ }
static struct ggml_backend_reg ggml_backend_blas_reg = {
/* .api_version = */ GGML_BACKEND_API_VERSION,
/* .iface = */ ggml_backend_blas_reg_i,