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Evaluate official-release ROCm gfx1151 image path for Strix Halo #4

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Idea

Evaluate the Strix Halo toolbox work that builds vLLM images from AMD's official per-arch ROCm release wheels for gfx1151, avoiding nightly ROCm drift while keeping text and vision paths on GPU.

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  • Strix Halo / RDNA 3.5 / gfx1151

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Why It Might Matter

gfx1151 support is highly sensitive to ROCm wheel provenance and ABI alignment. A stable official-release image path could make Strix Halo vLLM testing repeatable, reduce broken-nightly churn, and preserve GPU execution for vision paths that otherwise fall back or OOM.

Possible vLLM Work

  • Compare this image strategy against the fork's current ROCm build/deployment assumptions.
  • Verify the current official AMD gfx1151 torch/ROCm wheel set resolves with vLLM dependencies.
  • Test text and vision model serving on Strix Halo and record throughput, memory use, and backend selection.
  • Identify whether any upstream vLLM patches are needed versus image-only changes.

Duplicate Check

Searched randomvariable/vllm issues by title keywords, kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes#76, ROCm gfx1151 vLLM image, and rocm7.14.0-torch2.11.0-vllm0.26.0; no existing equivalent issue was found.

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