llama : print hint when loading a model when no backends are loaded (ggml-org#13589)

slaren · web-flow · commit 5364ae4ba53c · 2025-05-16T16:38:07.000+02:00
diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ static struct llama_model * llama_model_load_from_file_impl(
         struct llama_model_params params) {
     ggml_time_init();
 
+    if (!params.vocab_only && ggml_backend_reg_count() == 0) {
+        LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: no backends are loaded. hint: use ggml_backend_load() or ggml_backend_load_all() to load a backend before calling this function\n", __func__);
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+
     unsigned cur_percentage = 0;
     if (params.progress_callback == NULL) {
         params.progress_callback_user_data = &cur_percentage;
