[bong-water-water-bong]

Closes ggml-org#449.

What ggml-org#449 asked for, and what the pin actually looks like

ggml-org#449 filed 27 *_publish_* kernels as dropped whole in f2099e9b. On the current pin the corpus has 99
kernels and none of them carries a publish name, so this was never a matter of re-registering them.
Consumer-driven publication still happens, in the consumer:

• common_prepare_f16_input() — if an F16 alternate already exists it is used; otherwise the plan emits
  ggml_copy_f32_f16 (registration common.mul_mat.f16) and records the alternate itself.
• common_prepare_k16_major_f16_input() — same for the packed form: ggml_copy_f16_k16_major
  (common.mul_mat.k16_major_f16) and the F16K16Major generated resource.
• The producers that do fuse the pack are still there and gated: ggml_rmsnorm_binary_f32_k16 via
  has_qualified_rmsnorm_k16_consumer() (512 × {4096,5120,6144,8192} or 1024 × 5120), the swiglu prefill
  kernel's f16_output_layout=1, ggml_rmsnorm_gate_f32_f16 / _q8_1_x4.

So what f2099e9b removed is the fusion of the pack into the producing dispatch — one extra dispatch per
layer on the affected paths — not the publication. Restoring the 27 loom files from f2099e9b^ would mean
rewriting them against a Loom and dispatcher that have both moved since; the measurement below says the
fused form is not worth that on this hardware.

The five guards: PASS, markers retired

guard	was	now asserts
generic_swiglu_k16_publish	expected ggml_mul_mat_tiled_pair_input_f32_binary_publish_f32_k16	producer ggml_mul_mat_swiglu_f32_f32_wmma, the F16K16Major pack written by ggml_copy_f16_k16_major, consumed by the f16 projection
tiled_matmul_alternate_publish	expected the two …_publish_* producers	one dispatch writes the alternate from the projection and the f16/q8 consumer reads it; with two consumers of different formats both operands are published (Q8_1 and F16)
rmsnorm_binary_f16_output	expected ggml_rmsnorm_binary_f32_f16	no such export exists; the f16 alternate comes from the copy dispatch, and the dual-publication block asserts both alternates are written and consumed
rmsnorm_binary_k16_output	packed column encoded the old, wider gate	column follows has_qualified_rmsnorm_k16_consumer(); hidden 7168 publishes the k16 pack and no plain f16 alternate
packed_f16_producer_consumer	alternate column encoded the old publisher	a row is served either by the fused packed form or by the pack copy, so it asserts the f16 output is published at all; the 32768-hidden row does get a plain f16 alternate

All five known_fail("#449") markers are removed in this commit and the rows pass. Per the brief they had to
end as PASS or be deleted — none is left as a known-fail.

Measured cost of the publication path (arm A vs arm B)

Arm B disables the whole F16/K16 operand path:
GGML_HRX_DISABLE_DISPATCH=common.mul_mat.f16,common.mul_mat.k16_major_f16,common.mul_mat_swiglu.k16_major_f16,common.rmsnorm_binary.k16_major_f16,common.rmsnorm_gate.k16_major_f16.

llama-bench -p 512 -n 128 -r 2 -dev HRX0 -ngl 99 -t 4 on strixhalo (gfx1151), 90 W cap, PCM pad (23 Oct):

model	arm A (published)	arm B (not published)
Qwen3-8B-Q4_K_M pp512	2070.84 ± 5.62 t/s	2115.34 ± 24.50 t/s
Qwen3-8B-Q4_K_M tg128	42.45 ± 0.05 t/s	42.53 ± 0.03 t/s

Publishing costs nothing measurable on this pair, so the shapes where the line publishes f32 / a plain copy
instead of the fused pack are not a regression — and the two rows above where no publication exists at all
(rmsnorm_binary 7168, the two-token silu graph) are ruled out on that basis rather than restored. The
30B-A3B arm and the device half of hrx-backend-test were cut short by the release-candidate holds; they
are re-queued and their numbers will land on ggml-org#449 when they run.

Also in this file (engine ggml-org#445)

This commit carries the file-side half of ggml-org#445's classification at the pin, because the two issues share the
same test tables:

• require_compile_parameter() no longer calls std::abort() — a single wrong parameter used to kill the
  entire run instead of failing one case (it truncated two runs today).
• router route-id binding length is ggml_nbytes(route_ids); four-token mul_mat_id shapes take
  ggml_mul_mat_id_decode_f32_wave64 (kMaximumDecodeTokens = 4); the one-token value projection takes
  llm_attention_v_matmul_set_rows_decode_f32_f32; the get-rows q8 publication is consumed either by the
  qwen q6k linear or by the packed token1 final projection.
• known_fail("#533") on the two fused plans the command-program verifier rejects, known_fail("#534") on
  the arena-packing change, and known_fail("#445") on the five rows whose expectation still needs a ruling.

Evidence

Host suite on CPU at the pin, 66 cases:

host: 58 passed, 0 failed, 8 known-fail, 0 unexpected-pass, 66 total   (exit 0)

The fork has no CI, so that table is the gate. The device half is deferred (see above).

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