v1.0.0

AMDGPU v1.0.0

Diff since v0.9.6

Merged pull requests:

• Bump LLVM to 8 (#649) (@pxl-th)
• Run TLS tests on Navi 3 again (#650) (@pxl-th)
• Re-enable rocSPARSE & rocSOLVER tests (#652) (@pxl-th)
• Add JULIA_AMDGPU_LAUNCH_BLOCKING option (#655) (@pxl-th)
• Move error checks to ccalls (#656) (@pxl-th)
• Fix context switching & minor optimizations (#658) (@pxl-th)
• Add LLVM IR attributes (target cpu and target features) (#659) (@pxl-th)
• Add ormqr test (#660) (@pxl-th)
• Enable hardware atomics & link device libraries early (#661) (@pxl-th)

Closed issues:

• Allow preserving HSA executable (#97)
• Add workaround for atomics on floating point values (#151)
• CI against system ROCM 5 (#238)
• rocSPARSE tests hang Navi 3 (#597)
• Multithreading code hangs (#606)
• Failing tests with MI250X and Rocm 6.1.1 (#648)