Marvin,
Host assumes first 8-byte (little endian) of memory pointed by DR2 is the value 
of Image base address.
DR1 points to the PDB path (I am sure you noticed that in the 
SourceLevelDebugPkg code).

There is no plan to provide detailed documentation of host/client communication 
protocol. So far, the brief explanation can be seen in 
SourceLevelDebugPkg\Include\TransferProtocol.h.

I admit that if the old me had the mindset of today's me, a detailed markdown 
doc should have been provided in SourceLevelDebugPkg.
I will check internally on the open source plan, but please don't heavily rely 
on that.

Thanks,
Ray

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From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Marvin H?user
Sent: Sunday, August 1, 2021 1:21 AM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: Wu, Hao A <hao.a...@intel.com>
Subject: [edk2-devel] SLDP: Usage of PE library context by debugger?

Good day everyone,

While refining the port of SourceLevelDebugPkg to my newly proposed PeCoffLib 
rework (RFC upcoming), I noticed that the address of the PE Image context is 
written to DR2 [1]. Because the UDK and Intel System Studio debugging tools are 
closed source, I cannot verify what happens to this value. Does the host read 
the library context and retrieve data from it? If not, why is its address 
written to DR2? If so, this would mean the new PeCoffLib implementation breaks 
the existing debugging tools. The following questions would arise:

1) Which data are retrieved from the context structure? For GDB, I think only 
the Image address and symbol file path are required (to load the symbols), 
while PDB is saved in DR1 already.
2) Are there any plans to provide detailed documentation of the host/client 
communication protocol?
3) Are there any plans to provide an open source debugger, or at least the EDK 
II communication protocol portion?

Thank you for your time!

Best regards,
Marvin


[1]
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/610bcc69ed3d1e8c016332a1862465d41d95dd6c/SourceLevelDebugPkg/Library/PeCoffExtraActionLibDebug/PeCoffExtraActionLib.c#L126







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