tweaked container

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@
 		"dockerfile": "../Dockerfile"
 	},
 
-	"runArgs": ["--privileged"]
+	"privileged": true
 }

Dockerfile

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ FROM ubuntu:22.04
 WORKDIR /litex
 
 # Install dependencies
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget curl python3 python3-pip git gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu ninja-build
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget curl python3 python3-pip python3-venv git gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu ninja-build
 # TODO consolidate curl and wget
 RUN pip3 install numpy matplotlib
 

README.md

@@ -109,3 +109,8 @@ Do I have ecpdap installed in two places and one of them doesn't work maybe?
 
 I do have two versions installed. one from oss-cad-suite and one by building it
 manually.
+
+### Pip install makes UNKNOWN package in docker
+
+This is some weird conflict between pip's setuptools and the system setuptools,
+to solve just set everything up in a venv.