While you wait for PCW to confirm when the 8i20 might be in stock:
You can use other drives to drive motors and still use the existing resolvers, but no idea what exactly would work for you, probably any "voltage mode" drive, and maybe "torque mode" will also work, but you should wait for someone else to chime in and confirm any of this.
I am sure LinuxCNC will work with any setup, not sure about cheap drives plastering all possible options on the label and later finding out they do only step/dir or only +-10V...although some +-10V should work if they do not explicitly require having a tacho attached.
This would mean using a Mesa 7i97T together with 7i49.
In the meantime some more info might help narrow things down, like motor voltage/current/power, resolver type/make/model (very important as i have resolvers that do not work with 7i49, yes i am unlucky as heck), brakes, tacho maybe, etc.