From 30a0f93ca7b83325e0d73b493faf534ca5164719 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Milthorpe Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:27:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] README release notes link to ROCm docs; delete old release notes --- README.md | 2 +- RELEASE.md | 216 ----------------------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 217 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 RELEASE.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d5fb37e805..0a4ce98035 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ HIP releases are typically naming convention for each ROCM release to help diffe * [cuFFT](https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIPIFY/blob/master/doc/markdown/CUFFT_API_supported_by_HIP.md) * [cuSPARSE](https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIPIFY/blob/master/doc/markdown/CUSPARSE_API_supported_by_HIP.md) - [Developer/CONTRIBUTING Info](docs/developer_guide/contributing.md) -- [Release Notes](RELEASE.md) +- [Release Notes](https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md) ## How do I get set up? diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md deleted file mode 100644 index 939ee48c86..0000000000 --- a/RELEASE.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,216 +0,0 @@ -# Release notes - -We have attempted to document known bugs and limitations - in particular the [HIP Kernel Language](docs/markdown/hip_kernel_language.md) document uses the phrase "Under Development", and the [HIP Runtime API bug list](http://rocm-developer-tools.github.io/HIP/bug.html) lists known bugs. - - -=================================================================================================== - - -## Revision History: - -=================================================================================================== -Release: 1.5 -Date: -- Support threadIdx, blockIdx, blockDim directly (no need for hipify conversions in kernels.) HIP - Kernel syntax is now identical to CUDA kernel syntax - no need for extra parms or conversions. -- Refactor launch syntax. HIP now extracts kernels from the executable and launches them using the - existing module interface. Kernels dispatch no longer flows through HCC. Result is faster - kernel launches and with less resource usage (no signals required). -- Remove requirement for manual "serializers" previously required when passing complex structures - into kernels. -- Remove need for manual destructors -- Provide printf in device code -- Support for globals when using module API -- hipify-clang now supports using newer versions of clang -- HIP texture support equivalent to CUDA texture driver APIs -- Updates to hipify-perl, hipify-clang and documentation - - -=================================================================================================== -Release: 1.4 -Date: 2017.10.06 -- Improvements to HIP event management -- Added new HIP_TRACE_API options -- Enabled device side assert support -- Several bug fixes including hipMallocArray, hipTexture fetch -- Support for RHEL/CentOS 7.4 -- Updates to hipify-perl, hipify-clang and documentation - - -=================================================================================================== -Release: 1.3 -Date: 2017.08.16 -- hipcc now auto-detects amdgcn arch. No need to specify the arch when building for same system. -- HIP texture support (run-time APIs) -- 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. - - -=================================================================================================== -Release: 1.2 -Date: 2017.06.29 -- new APIs: hipMemcpy2DAsync, hipMallocPitch, hipHostMallocCoherent, hipHostMallocNonCoherent -- added support for building hipify-clang using clang 3.9 -- hipify-clang updates for CUDA 8.0 runtime+driver support -- renamed hipify to hipify-perl -- initial implementation of hipify-cmakefile -- several documentation updates & bug fixes -- support for abort() function in device code - - -=================================================================================================== -Release: 1.0.17102 -Date: 2017.03.07 -- Lots of improvements to hipify-clang. -- Added HIP package config for cmake. -- Several bug fixes and documentation updates. - - -=================================================================================================== -Release: 1.0.17066 -Date: 2017.02.11 -- Improved support for math device functions. -- Added several half math device functions. -- Enabled support for CUDA 8.0 in hipify-clang. -- Lots of bug fixes and documentation updates. - - -=================================================================================================== -Release: 1.0.17015 -Date: 2017.01.06 -- Several improvements to the hipify-clang infrastructure. -- Refactored module and function APIs. -- HIP now defaults to linking against the shared runtime library. -- Documentation updates. - - -=================================================================================================== -Release: 1.0.16502 -Date: 2016.12.13 -- Added several fast math and packaged math instrincs -- Improved debug and profiler documentation -- Support for building and linking to HIP shared library -- Several improvements to hipify-clang -- Several bug fixes - - -=================================================================================================== -Release: 1.0.16461 -Date: 2016.11.14 -- Significant changes to the HIP Profiling APIs. Refer to the documentation for details -- Improvements to P2P support -- New API: hipDeviceGetByPCIBusId -- Several bug fixes in NV path -- hipModuleLaunch now works for multi-dim kernels - - -=================================================================================================== -Release:1.0 -Date: 2016.11.8 -- Initial implementation for FindHIP.cmake -- HIP library now installs as a static library by default -- Added support for HIP context and HIP module APIs -- Major changes to HIP signal & memory management implementation -- Support for complex data type and math functions -- clang-hipify is now known as hipify-clang -- Added several new HIP samples -- Preliminary support for new APIs: hipMemcpyToSymbol, hipDeviceGetLimit, hipRuntimeGetVersion -- Added support for async memcpy driver API (for example hipMemcpyHtoDAsync) -- Support for memory management device functions: malloc, free, memcpy & memset -- Removed deprecated HIP runtime header locations. Please include "hip/hip_runtime.h" instead of "hip_runtime.h". You can use `find . -type f -exec sed -i 's:#include "hip_runtime.h":#include "hip/hip_runtime.h":g' {} +` to replace all such references - - -=================================================================================================== -Release:0.92.00 -Date: 2016.8.14 -- hipLaunchKernel supports one-dimensional grid and/or block dims, without explicit cast to dim3 type (actually in 0.90.00) -- fp16 software support -- Support for Hawaii dGPUs using environment variable ROCM_TARGET=hawaii -- Support hipArray -- Improved profiler support -- Documentation updates -- Improvements to clang-hipify - - -=================================================================================================== -Release:0.90.00 -Date: 2016.06.29 -- Support dynamic shared memory allocations -- Min HCC compiler version is > 16186. -- Expanded math functions (device and host). Document unsupported functions. -- hipFree with null pointer initializes runtime and returns success. -- Improve error code reporting on nvcc. -- Add hipPeekAtError for nvcc. - - -=================================================================================================== -Release:0.86.00 -Date: 2016.06.06 -- Add clang-hipify : clang-based hipify tool. Improved parsing of source code, and automates - creation of hipLaunchParm variable. -- Implement memory register / unregister commands (hipHostRegister, hipHostUnregister) -- Add cross-linking support between G++ and HCC, in particular for interfaces that use - standard C++ libraries (ie std::vectors, std::strings). HIPCC now uses libstdc++ by default on the HCC - compilation path. -- More samples including gpu-burn, SHOC, nbody, rtm. See [HIP-Examples](https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP-Examples) - - -=================================================================================================== -Release:0.84.01 -Date: 2016.04.25 -- Refactor HIP make and install system: - - Move to CMake. Refer to the installation section in README.md for details. - - Split source into multiple modular .cpp and .h files. - - Create static library and link. - - Set HIP_PATH to install. -- Make hipDevice and hipStream thread-safe. - - Preferred hipStream usage is still to create new streams for each new thread, but it works even if you don;t. -- Improve automated platform detection: If AMD GPU is installed and detected by driver, default HIP_PLATFORM to hcc. -- HIP_TRACE_API now prints arguments to the HIP function (in addition to name of function). -- Deprecate hipDeviceGetProp (Replace with hipGetDeviceProp) -- Deprecate hipMallocHost (Replace with hipHostMalloc) -- Deprecate hipFreeHost (Replace with hipHostFree) -- The mixbench benchmark tool for measuring operational intensity now has a HIP target, in addition to CUDA and OpenCL. Let the comparisons begin. :) -See here for more : https://github.com/ekondis/mixbench. - - -=================================================================================================== -Release:0.82.00 -Date: 2016.03.07 -- Bump minimum required HCC workweek to 16074. -- Bump minimum required ROCK-Kernel-Driver and ROCR-Runtime to Developer Preview 2. -- Enable multi-GPU support. - * Use hipSetDevice to select a device for subsequent kernel calls and memory allocations. - * CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES / HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICE environment variable selects devices visible to the runtime. -- Support hipStreams – send sequences of copy and kernel commands to a device. - * Asynchronous copies supported. -- Optimize memory copy operations. -- Support hipPointerGetAttribute – can determine if a pointer is host or device. -- Enable atomics to local memory. -- Support for LC Direct-To-ISA path. -- Improved free memory reporting. - * hipMemGetInfo (report full memory used in current process). - * hipDeviceReset (deletes all memory allocated by current process). - - -=================================================================================================== -Release:0.80.01 -Date: 2016.02.18 -- Improve reporting and support for device-side math functions. -- Update Runtime Documentation. -- Improve implementations of cross-lane operations (_ballot, _any, _all). -- Provide shuffle intrinsics (performance optimization in-progress). -- Support hipDeviceAttribute for querying "one-shot" device attributes, as an alternative to hipGetDeviceProperties. - - -=================================================================================================== -Release:0.80.00 -Date: 2016.01.25 - -Initial release with GPUOpen Launch. - - -