Question about yenta and the TI1520 PCI-CardBus bridge

[Bruce_Leonard at selinc.com]

Hi all,

If this is the wrong list I apologize, but I'm fairly sure it's related to 
CF/CF+.  This is a newbie question but I'm not getting any good 
information from google.  What is a 'yanta-compatible device' and how do I 
know if a device is 'yenta-compatible'?  Is it related to PCI-CardBus 
bridges?

A second question: has anyone successfully gotten the TI1520 PCI-CardBus 
bridge to work in linux?  We're doing a new design with a MPC8347 uC and 
we have a need to support both a CF storage device and a CF+ 'other' 
device.  We've gone through a number of iterations on ideas (hang it on a 
USB to IDE converter, hang it off the local bus, etc.) but the 
best/cleanest/most flexible solution we keep coming back to is the PCI 
bus.  We'd like to use the TI part because we need industrial temp rating, 
but TI isn't talking to us because they're totally tied up with the Vista 
release and don't have any resources for new customers.  So I thought I'd 
ask the question out here: does this device work under linux?  How much 
effort is it to make it work: hours, days, weeks?  (I realize that if it's 
not currently supported, the answer to the last depends on how much I know 
about the internals of linux, which at this point is VERY small, though 
I'm learning :)  .)  Thanks for any guidance you can provide.

Take care and stay safe.

bruce