Windows 10: How to find an available interrupt vector that doesn't conflict.

I have a kernel driver that has an ISR for some hardware. I need to find an interrupt vector so that I can program the hardware to use that vector and I can tell Windows to call my ISR when the interrupts occur.
My strategy is as follows: I use IoConnectInterrupt with various combinations of parameters until I get a successful return. The combinations I use are, in order of choices:

• not shared, shared
• Latched, Level Sensitive
• vector from 50h ... FEh
• DIRQL from 0 to 9.

The driver gets the first success for not shared, Latched, vector 80h, DIRQL 0.
I changed the driver to try shared first, then it got shared, Latched, vector 80h, DIRQL 0.

The result is that after I enable the hardware for vector 80, I do get some interrupts. The ISR keeps an interrupt count which the client program can get from the driver. However, after a short period of operation, the entire system hangs -- nothing new showing on the console window, no mouse, no keyboard (not even ctrl-alt-del).
Obviously, this particular choice of interrupt parameters is interfering with some other device on the system.

When I change the driver so that it does not enable interrupts by the hardware, everything works fine. The client program gets no data from the driver, of course, and it keeps on trying forever.

My question is: What method do you recommend for selecting these parameters for IoConnectInterrupt, or some other method of hooking the ISR to a vector?

Perhaps using Hal routines?

My method doesn't seem right, even with shared access, because some other driver might later want exclusive access to the same vector and fail to get it. So there should be a better way of arbitrating vector usage.

Please help. Right now my project is dead in the water. Thanks.

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Windows 10 Compatibility icon - available as a download?

I need a vector version of the Windows 10 Compatibility icon. I can only find low-res gif online. Is this available anywhere on the Microsoft website?

 

WINDOWS 10 START MENU

I, too, have noticed erratic behavior with the Start Menu & Task Bar: clicking on program icons will not launch the applications; clicking on the Start icon has no effect; clicking on program tiles on the Task Bar does not take you to, change focus to, nor
maximize the applications; clicking on any of the status icons is ineffective...

The only solution I've been able to find that works consistently is the dreaded MS Reboot...

This isn't too hard, MS, the click anywhere results in an interrupt, which is then handled by the interrupt handler for the mouse-click. It then should parse where the click occurred (relative location within the workspace) & dequeues that application from
the Ready queue & places it in Execution state. Hopefully we're not losing chunks (or the entire) interrupt vector table...

 

By the way, the last time I tried using this driver was three years ago, and it worked fine. I was on Windows 7 with a different CPU. I now have Windows 10 and an AMD Ryzen.

 

You would get better results by posting on a programmers forum, which this is not. Maybe Stack Overflow.

 

I'm surprised. I thought this forum was especially for driver developers.
Isn't there something called "windev" or some such? I couldn't find it on the web, after a little bit of searching. I recall participating in it, so I thought TenForums was the one I was thinking of.
Anyone know of the forum for Windows Driver programming? Thanks.

 

I recall participating on a driver developers forum years ago, and I thought this was the one I was thinking of. However, the one I was thinking of turns out to be OSR Online (OSR Online - The Home Page for Windows Driver Developers).