I have recently been tinkering with my 88k systems and have started to 
poke at binutils 2.15 trying to make it grok elf.  I've tweaked bfd so 
that objdump displays correct relocation entries for a .o file produced 
on my SysV/88k R4V4 box.  I'm about to write the missing pieces for gas 
to output with correct relocation entries.

So far I've only had to implement the relocation types R_88K_16L, 
R_88K_16H, R_88K_DISP16, R_88K_DISP26, and R_88K_32.  (sanity check; 
dose this sound about right?)

SysV headers have a whole bunch more(perhaps 80+ more) relocation 
types, but I can't even begin to imagine what they are for.  I suppose 
we'll implement as we need them.

I'm not an expert on elf, but have some hope that this is doable.  I 
was wondering if anyone on the list had documentation about the 
platform/processor(that is 88k) specific ABI.  I'm guessing and making 
stuff up as I go from looking at disassembled relocatables and 
executables from the SysV/88k, but it occurred to me that I should ask 
to see if anyone out there has 88k specific elf specs or 88Open ABI 
specs.(not really sure what this is but have seen references to it, and 
sounded relevant)  I could really use help in this matter.

BTW does anyone know what executable format DG/UX supports?

According to the wikipedia the 88k was announced 1988, perhaps we can 
get NetBSD ported in time for the 20th anniversary :-)

....maki....

http://www.m88k.org