waits for any accelerator operation to finish. Though already
implemented not useful because these old style functions do not allow for parallel
operation of the accelerator. A limited use might be to wait for a running
operation to complete in a
signal (2)
handler.
This is an old style function to access the accelerator of an SVGA card. Before calling
it you should check for availability of the function in the mode you use with
vga_getmodeinfo (3).
For new applications you might be better of trying to use
vga_accel (3)
instead.
The old
vga_bitblt (3),
vga_blitwait (3),
vga_fillblt (3),
vga_hlinelistblt (3), and
vga_imageblt (3)
interface was originally designed for the Cirrus chipsets. Then Mach32 added support too
but has problems to resemble the unintuitive Cirrus interface. Then these new ideas
were reinjected and
vga_accel (3)
was designed. Now Cirrus and Chips & Technologies chipset give limited
vga_accel (3)
support but no longer this old style support.
Mach32 is left to use the unintuitive Cirrus interface. At some future point the
functions might be added for Mach32 too (which should be rather simple), so new
applications should use the newer and probably more efficient interface.
It would be fatal if the accelerator would be used while the console is switched away.
You should use
vga_lockvc (3)
and
vga_unlockvc (3)
to avoid this, although good implementations of the accelerator functions (like Mach32)
will already ensure that.
The
testaccel (6)
demo utilizes the old style accelerator functions.