Bump installed versions of python to 3.8 #868
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (the most recent LTS release) stopped shipping Python 3.6 in their default repositories. Upping it to Python 3.8 does not seem to have broken the design/elaboration process. I tested re-building Chipyard and all its dependencies using this new version, and everything appears to have remained the same.
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As indicated in #864 (which updated the docs a bit), the Chipyard repo assumes users are running 16.04/18.04 (this includes the CI infrastructure). Ill open a branch on the Chipyard repo to run CI on this to see if this is backwards compatible. |
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Also for future reference, we develop off the |
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Closing since #869 addresses this |
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (the most recent LTS release) stopped shipping Python 3.6 in their default repositories.
Upping it to Python 3.8 does not seem to have broken the
design/elaboration process. I tested re-building Chipyard and the default Rocket design, and everything appears to have remained the same.
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Type of change: version bump
Impact: software change
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