ggml-org/llama.cpp b12233

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feat: external PLE file loading (#31185)

• model : allow loading external PLE files

Assisted-by: Codex

• convert : add separate PLE exports

Assisted-by: Codex

• tests : fix PLE export test lint

Assisted-by: Codex

• model : make --ple an alias of --shard, allow multiple shard locations

Reuse the multi-shard loading path for external PLE files instead of a
separate option.

• --ple is an alias of --shard: both take a comma separated list and may
  be given more than once, and the shards may live anywhere
• metadata comes from the main file; numbered shards are still
  auto-discovered and strictly validated
• explicit files outside the discovered set are appended as extra shards,
  exempt from split.no and split.count checks
• -isnm/--ignore-shard-num-mismatch loads only the given files, in order,
  with no auto-discovery and no split metadata validation
• ple_path, path_ple and llama_model_loader::add_ple_file are removed;
  common_model_load() uses llama_model_load_from_splits for two or more
  paths
• common/fit.{h,cpp} take the shard path vector, so --fit and the router
  memory measurement load every shard

Assisted-by: GPT-6-Astra

• rm -isnm

• make sure to dedup paths

• rm test_convert_ple

• address comments

• allow ple shard to override tensor

Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen son@huggingface.co