Introduction
The TPS65982DMC is a dock management controller for docks, hubs, and monitors implementing TI PD controllers. Suitable Power Delivery (PD) Controller devices include TPS6598x which are updated as part of the DMC firmware. There may be multiple PD devices attached to each DMC device.
Firmware Format
The daemon will decompress the cabinet archive and extract a firmware blob as a SHA-256+RSA-3072 signed binary file.
This plugin supports the following protocol ID:
com.ti.tps6598x
GUID Generation
These devices use the standard USB DeviceInstanceId values, e.g.
USB\VID_0451&PID_ACE1&REV_0001USB\VID_0451&PID_ACE1USB\VID_0451
Child devices also have an additional instance IDs which corresponds to the index, e.g.
USB\VID_2188&PID_5988&REV_0714&PD_00USB\VID_2188&PID_5988&PD_00
Update Behavior
The device usually presents in runtime mode.
Vendor ID Security
The vendor ID is set from the USB vendor, in this instance set to USB:0x0451
External Interface Access
This plugin requires read/write access to /dev/bus/usb.