On 14/05/2026 14:33, Igor Mammedov wrote:

On Fri,  8 May 2026 11:17:40 +0100
Mark Cave-Ayland <[email protected]> wrote:

The existing aml_interrupt() uses the Extended Interrupt Descriptor to store
the interrupt information, however newer Windows will only parse the
standard IRQ Descriptor when enumerating ISA serial ports.

Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <[email protected]>

with nit below fixed:

Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <[email protected]>

---
  include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h |  2 ++
  hw/acpi/aml-build-stub.c    |  6 ++++++
  hw/acpi/aml-build.c         | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
  3 files changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h b/include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h
index e70e0643b1..eaff025d26 100644
--- a/include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h
+++ b/include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h
@@ -343,6 +343,8 @@ Aml *aml_io(AmlIODecode dec, uint16_t min_base, uint16_t 
max_base,
  Aml *aml_operation_region(const char *name, AmlRegionSpace rs,
                            Aml *offset, uint32_t len);
  Aml *aml_irq_no_flags(uint8_t irq);
+Aml *aml_irq(uint8_t irq, AmlLevelAndEdge level_and_edge,
+             AmlActiveHighAndLow high_and_low, AmlShared shared);
  Aml *aml_named_field(const char *name, unsigned length);
  Aml *aml_reserved_field(unsigned length);
  Aml *aml_local(int num);
diff --git a/hw/acpi/aml-build-stub.c b/hw/acpi/aml-build-stub.c
index 89a8fec4af..3180c7c962 100644
--- a/hw/acpi/aml-build-stub.c
+++ b/hw/acpi/aml-build-stub.c
@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ Aml *aml_irq_no_flags(uint8_t irq)
      return NULL;
  }
+Aml *aml_irq(uint8_t irq, AmlLevelAndEdge level_and_edge,
+             AmlActiveHighAndLow high_and_low, AmlShared shared)
+{
+    return NULL;
+}
+
  Aml *aml_interrupt(AmlConsumerAndProducer con_and_pro,
                     AmlLevelAndEdge level_and_edge,
                     AmlActiveHighAndLow high_and_low, AmlShared shared,
diff --git a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
index 7edc8aed42..3aaf96c2a7 100644
--- a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
+++ b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
@@ -1061,6 +1061,31 @@ Aml *aml_irq_no_flags(uint8_t irq)
      return var;
  }
+/*
+ * ACPI 1.0b: 6.4.2.1.1 ASL Macro for IRQ Descriptor
+ *
+ * More verbose description at:
+ * ACPI 5.0: 19.5.63 IRQ (Interrupt Resource Descriptor Macro)
+ *           6.4.2.1 IRQ Descriptor
+ */
+Aml *aml_irq(uint8_t irq, AmlLevelAndEdge level_and_edge,
+             AmlActiveHighAndLow high_and_low, AmlShared shared)
+{
+    uint16_t irq_mask;
+    Aml *var = aml_alloc();
+    uint8_t irq_flags = level_and_edge | (high_and_low << 3) |
+                        (shared << 4);

I'd add here an assert for invalid level_and_edge/high_and_low

I was in the process of testing v4 locally with your suggestion when I realised I hadn't done the full port removal and redetection test on Windows 8.1 - and whilst it detected all the ports, it marked them all as in conflict again :(

The only other combination available other than Active-High-Edge used for v3 is Active-Low-Level so I gave it a try, and it worked for both Windows 8.1 and Windows 11 again.

My guess is that rather than reflect how the PIC would be programmed as Active-High-Edge, all Windows cares about is the note at the end of section 6.4.2.1 which states "Note: Low true, level sensitive interrupts may be electrically shared, but the process of how this might work is beyond the scope of this specification." i.e. any shared interrupt that *isn't* Active-Low-Level should be considered invalid.

I think this is fine for our purposes since all we want to do is indicate to Windows that IRQs 3 and 4 can be shared, since anything using the legacy ISA serial ports will almost certainly have these well-known values hard-coded regardless.

I'll do a bit more testing and send a v4 later if everything looks good.

+
+    assert(irq < 16);
+    build_append_byte(var->buf, 0x23); /* IRQ descriptor 3 byte form */
+
+    irq_mask = 1U << irq;
+    build_append_byte(var->buf, irq_mask & 0xFF); /* IRQ mask bits[7:0] */
+    build_append_byte(var->buf, irq_mask >> 8); /* IRQ mask bits[15:8] */
+    build_append_byte(var->buf, irq_flags); /* IRQ flags */
+    return var;
+}
+
  /* ACPI 1.0b: 16.2.5.4 Type 2 Opcodes Encoding: DefLNot */
  Aml *aml_lnot(Aml *arg)
  {


ATB,

Mark.


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