stretch install no hostmot2 in synaptic

John a question completely OT

Not so long ago on the dev forum you posted a link to a work done implementing a plasma cutter GUI using QTVCP

Do you mind giving me that link here again, I like to have a closer look at that.

The firmware used to be installed in the /lib/firmware/hm2/cardname/

I suspect it could be added somewhat automatically if the right repository stanza was present (the firmware is independent of OS/version etc)

Which repository has the firmware?

JT

jgnoss wrote: John a question completely OT

Not so long ago on the dev forum you posted a link to a work done implementing a plasma cutter GUI using QTVCP

Do you mind giving me that link here again, I like to have a closer look at that.

I do think your mistaken about the GUI, you might be thinking about my QtPyVCP plasma gui... github.com/jethornton/plasma_v2

JT

I think that the issue here is that LinuxCNC used to build its own version of the Hostmot2 firmware:
github.com/LinuxCNC/hostmot2-firmware
But then Mesa moved on to newer FPGAs using a different Xilinx ISE and the LinuxCNC build system couldn't build the newer firmwares.

This is certainly something that we need to consider when making the next LinuxCNC LiveCD (2.8 release)

It might not matter that the LinuxCNC packager can't build the new firmwares, as the new cards don't need to load the firmware on every boot. Only the legacy cards (5i20, 5i23, 7i43 etc) need the firmware to be resident in /lib/firmware to be able to boot.

Is it as simple a just placing the firmware for the legacy cards in lib/firmware?

JT

BigJohnT wrote: Is it as simple a just placing the firmware for the legacy cards in lib/firmware?

I am not sure. I have a feeling that everything in a live-build needs to be a package.