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What this PR does / why we need it?

Set adxl engine as the default Mooncake backend, because Ascend Transport is no longer maintained.
Update README to include instructions for installing the adxl backend Mooncake.

Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?

Users need to compile and install the mooncake backend for adxl according to the revised README instructions.

How was this patch tested?

By CI.

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@wangxiyuan wangxiyuan changed the title [P/D]Set adxl as default backend and update readme [v0.11.0][P/D]Set adxl as default backend and update readme Oct 27, 2025
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It may be necessary to inform users which Mooncake version onward uses ADXL as the default, since the ADXL transport was merged into Mooncake after the Ascend transport.

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liziyu179 commented Nov 4, 2025

It may be necessary to inform users which Mooncake version onward uses ADXL as the default, since the ADXL transport was merged into Mooncake after the Ascend transport.

Community has updated the version dependency documentation, requiring CANN ≥ 8.3.RC1. The installation documentation for Mooncake should be updated accordingly along with the community documentation.
https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

@wangxiyuan wangxiyuan merged commit 954dab6 into vllm-project:v0.11.0-dev Nov 4, 2025
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Clorist33 pushed a commit to Clorist33/vllm-ascend that referenced this pull request Dec 9, 2025
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### What this PR does / why we need it?
Set adxl engine as the default Mooncake backend, because Ascend
Transport is no longer maintained.
Update README to include instructions for installing the adxl backend
Mooncake.

### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Users need to compile and install the mooncake backend for adxl
according to the revised README instructions.

### How was this patch tested?
By CI.

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Signed-off-by: nwpu-zxr <[email protected]>
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