stretch install no hostmot2 in synaptic

I installed a fresh machine with stretch and preempt following instruction on gnipsel.com, (thank's John for that)
- cp over my config files from another machine running wheezy and 2.8.
- configs fail to start because of missing Mesa firmware files.
- opening synaptic search hostmot2 -> no results

I know there is a lot of possibilities to get mesa firmware to the right place on my computer and make my new install work.
But because I see a lot of cleanup going on I'll ask

What's the "official way" to get mesa firmware installed by apt?

Ju

Is this for a Mesa 5i20 or similar card?

JT

It's for a 5I23

can you look into
/usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules

what moduels are installed
and in terminal
locate hm2

to see if you got the files for the 5i23

To understand my post, it's not a problem of making that run on my new machine
I do just cp the firmware files from the other machine to /lib/firmware/ and it runs.

But that's not an option for users that doesn't have that files on another machine.
The linuxcnc wiki tells you to search for hostmot2 in synaptic, but that search doesn't
give any results on a clean stretch install, having a file .

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxcnc-buildbot.list
that contains

deb buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ stretch master-rtpreempt
deb-src buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ stretch master-rtpreempt


responding the question of pl7i92:

a lot in /usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/

reduced to show what seems to be related to hostmot

# ls /usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/hm*
/usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/hm2_7i43.so
/usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/hm2_rpspi.so
/usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/hm2_7i90.so
/usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/hm2_spi.so
/usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/hm2_eth.so
/usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/hm2_test.so
/usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/hm2_pci.so

# locate hm2
#

linuxcnc is looking for //lib/firmware/hm2/5i23/SVST4_8.BIT

the related lines from error report:

Could not locate firmware "//lib/firmware/hm2/5i23/SVST4_8.BIT". (No such file or directory)
hm2/hm2_5i23.0: firmware hm2/5i23/SVST4_8.BIT not found
hm2/hm2_5i23.0: install the package containing the firmware.
hm2_5i23.0: board fails HM2 registration

For some reason unknown to me the hostmot2 drivers are not in stretch. The last release to have the hostmot2 drivers was Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid.

I searched through the linuxcnc.org/dists/ to be sure. The hostmot2 drivers are in the base/source directory.

You would have to build and install the hostmot2 drivers from the github repo.
github.com/LinuxCNC/hostmot2-firmware

JT