ELF conversion suggestions needed

[A34Chris]

An assembler that supports ELF, among other formats is being adapted to handle the Atari Jaguar systems RISCs.

Atari Jaguar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Jags GPU RISC has a Jaguar specific MOVEI relocation that the programmer is scratching his head on how to represent that in ELF format.

ATM the Jaguar-specific MOVEI
relocation is only supported in a.out format.

If I knew how to represent that in ELF I could add it, of course.

Here is a link to the Jaguar v8 tech reference manual that has the needed information:

http://www.hillsoftware.com/files/at...uar/jag_v8.pdf

If anyone is an ELF expert and has ANY suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the assembler being adapted:

vasm portable and retargetable assembler

Thank you for your time and any assitance anyone has to offer.

[A34Chris]

When I asked him what help he needed this was the vasm authors reply:

Yes. You have to point me to a document which describes the ELF format
for the Jaguar RISC CPU. The minimal information includes:

- e_machine, a 16-bit code which identifies the ELF-CPU
- description of all relocation types and their ELF id-number
- do these relocations generally include an addend (.rela) or not (.rel)?

I told him there was no gpu ELF format and it would have to be created the same way it was for everything else at one time.