Merge pull request #17 from GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/next-release

Update to HIPRT 2.4

Author: RichardGe

.gitignore

@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@ dist/
 hiprt/hiprt.h
 hiprt/hiprtew.h
 hiprt/cache/Kernels.h
-hiprt/cache/KernelArgs.h
+hiprt/cache/KernelArgs.h
+PUBLIC_OUT/

.gitmodules

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "contrib/Orochi"]
-	path = contrib/Orochi
-	url = https://github.com/amdadvtech/Orochi
-[submodule "contrib/easy-encryption"]
-	path = contrib/easy-encryption
-	url = https://github.com/amdadvtech/easy-encryption

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+2.4.c587aa7
+- H-PLOC and improved wide BVH conversion
+- CMake support
+- Configurable HIPRT path via a env. variable
+- New gfx architectures supported 
+- hiprtBuildTraceKernel can return only the HIP module
+- HIP module caching and unloading (fixing a memory leak)
+- Fixing matrix inversion and identity check
+- Fixing refit and other minor issues
+
+2.3.7df94af
+- Transformation query API changed/extended
+
+2.2.0e68f54 (December 2023)
+- Multi-level instancing
+- Triangle pairing
+- AS Compaction
+- Optimized BVH build speed
+
+2.1.c202dac (November 2023)
+- HIPRT binaries compiled with ROCm 5.7
+- A fix for caching trace kernels
+- A fix for the custom function table compilation
+- A fix for the fast and balanced builders with custom streams
+
+2.1.6fc8ff0 (September 2023)
+- Dynamic traversal stack assignment
+- Batch BVH construction
+- Transformation query functions
+- Improved BVH construction speed
+- Improved RT speed for transformed instances
+- Fixed geometry IO API
+- Optional trace kernel caching
+
+2.0.3a134c7 (May 2023)
+- BVH memory optimization
+- SBVH speed optimization
+- Fixing hiprtBuildTraceKernels
+- Dynamic loading via HIPRTEW
+- Traversal optimization
+
+2.0.0 (February 2023)
+- Bitcode and precompilation (527.41 or newer driver is necessary to run on NVIDIA® on Windows®)
+- Performance improvement
+- Navi3x support
+- MI60 and MI200 support
+- Traversal hints for better performance
+- Concurrent build via streams
+- Custom function table
+- Intersection filter
+- Transformation matrices support
+- Multiple templated kernels
+- Added ray t min