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hexagon: build and run on the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-10 (Linux) - #68
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The Hexagon SDK has no arm64 Linux build, so on a Snapdragon Linux board such as IQ-10 vla.cpp is cross-built in Qualcomm's toolchain container. build_linux_snapdragon.sh runs that build and packages bin/ and lib/ with the HTP skels. With vla-server it installs Debian's arm64 protobuf and ZeroMQ dev packages in the container (multiarch); --no-server skips them. HTP_SKEL_POST runs a command on each skel, for boards that load only processed skels. Verified on IQ-10 (Linux, Hexagon v81): vla-server serves SmolVLA to eval/client/vla_cpp_client.py, and vla_predict_check matches the CPU F32 reference to 7.2e-4.
Document the IQ-10 under Linux: cross-building with scripts/build_linux_snapdragon.sh, installing the HTP skel (FastRPC there ignores ADSP_LIBRARY_PATH and loads only processed skels from /vendor/dsp/cdspN), running vla-server, the CONCAT refusal, and the fidelity of the six archs run so far. Add a CHANGELOG entry.
The IQ-10 is a Qualcomm Dragonwing part. Rename scripts/build_linux_snapdragon.sh to build_linux_hexagon.sh, since it targets Qualcomm Linux boards with a Hexagon NPU, and its SNAPDRAGON_IMAGE override to TOOLCHAIN_IMAGE. Fix the board name in the script header, docs/backend/hexagon.md and CHANGELOG. The toolchain image name and the Snapdragon X laptop references are unchanged.
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Bring in the Dragonwing IQ-10 naming fix and the script rename to build_linux_hexagon.sh. The CHANGELOG IQ-10 entry keeps this branch's text with the new names.
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Adds a build script and docs for running vla.cpp on the Hexagon NPU of a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-10
board under Linux. Follow-up to #67, which fixed the runtime abort; this makes the setup reproducible.
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scripts/build_linux_hexagon.sh(new): cross-builds vla.cpp,vla-serverincluded, inQualcomm's toolchain container, and packages the binaries and HTP skels.
docs/backend/hexagon.md: a Linux (IQ-10) section with build, skel install, run and results.CHANGELOG.md: one Unreleased entry.Risk
Tested on a Dragonwing IQ-10 (Linux, Hexagon v81, llama.cpp
b11223) with the publishedvrfai/*GGUFs:vla-server, and the binaries run on the board.vla-serverserves SmolVLA toeval/client/vla_cpp_client.py.vla_predict_checkagainst CPU F32 (bar 2.9e-3):Not in this PR