Bug#1121021: rocblas: FTBFS on ppc64el
Hi,
On 2025-11-20 07:04, Cordell Bloor wrote:
> Christian, your ggml package is the primary reverse dependency affected.
> While amd64 and arm64 can be binNMU'd, I think we might have trouble
> with ppc64el for a while. As I understand it, our options are basically
> to fix the bug in LLVM, find a workaround in rocblas, or RM rocblas
> rdepends on ppc64el. Do you have any preferences on how to proceed?
I will be dropping the HIP backend from ggml over the weekend, as there
are too many other issues with the ROCm stack open [1], and continuing
to depend on it would impede ggml's migration to testing.
The HIP backend will be re-added once librocblas4 has migrated to testing.
Best,
Christian
[1]: I'll start a separate thread on this over the weekend
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