- hipcc now auto-detects amdgcn arch. No need to specify the arch when building for same system.
- HIP texture support
- Implemented __threadfence_support
- Improvements in HIP context management logic
- Bug fixes in several APIs including hipDeviceGetPCIBusId, hipEventDestroy, hipMemcpy2DAsync
- Updates to hipify-clang and documentation
- HIP development now fully open and on GitHub. Developers should submit pull requests.
Notes:
- The code has been tested using HCC tagged version preview_1.0.17333.
- For convenience, a script that pulls the correct HIP code from github and builds it as well has been added to the release. To use it, simply download the script
build_hcc_and_hip.shto an empty folder on your development machine and run./build_hcc_and_hip.sh. - Alternatively you can download the HCC and HIP debian packages for Ubuntu 16.04 from the corresponding project release tags.