D516 - A flip completes when it is accepted

Status: decided Date: 2026-09-03

With no scanout and no vertical blank, a submitted flip completes as soon as it is accepted, so sceVideoOutIsFlipPending answers zero for any open port and refuses a handle no port owns.

Why: the headless flip model already drives sceVideoOutGetFlipStatus; a queue that empties on submit has nothing pending at any moment a guest can observe. The count is a number a guest spins on, so a placeholder there reads as millions of pending flips and holds a present loop forever.

Rejected:

• The stub placeholder: reads as a huge pending count and the guest never leaves its frame loop.
• Answering zero for an unknown handle: tells a guest that a port it does not have is idle.
• Modelling a vertical-blank delay: there is no scanout to take its timing from.