Re: Kernel support for the TI1520 PCI-CardBus bridge?

[Ben Warren <bwarren@qstreams.com>]

Bruce,
--- Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> We're designing a new product and we want to put a
> CF card in it.  We're 
> thinking the easiest way to do that is to put in a
> PCI-CF bridge and we 
> would like to use the TI1520 because it's industrial
> rated which we need. 
> We can get the parts but TI is refusing to give us
> any support because 
> they're devoting 100% of their time to dealing with
> the Vista release. I'm 
> curious if anyone has ever successfully gotten this
> part to work in linux. 
>  I found it listed in pci_ids.h, but that doesn't
> mean it's actually 
> used/working.  I'm not looking for a detailed
> explination right now, we're 
> just trying to gage if this part would be a couple
> of weeks of work or a 
> couple of months.  Thanks for any info.

If you don't need hot-plugging and happen to be using
either a Freescale PowerQUICCx or IBM/AMCC 4xx chip,
you might consider connecting directly to the local
bus and operating in TrueIDE mode.  This has
limitations, but has been done many times.

regards,
Ben