TIPD(4)

💅 TIPD(4) — the TI USB Type-C power delivery controller page, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a section 4 kernel interfaces manual page, and it's literally about tipd — the TI USB Type-C power delivery controller. yes, that whole mouthful. stay with me, it's actually slay ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tipd* at iic?

that's the whole config line, no cap. tipd* attaches at iic? — iconic, minimal, done 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the tipd driver is the one providing support for the TI TPS6598x and CD321x Type-C power delivery controllers. those are the little chips that handle all the USB-C drama for you 👑

it takes care of plug and unplug events on the USB Type-C port — like, you plug something in, it knows. you yank it out, it also knows. main character energy fr 💅

and that's not all! it additionally enables power on the USB Type-C port when a sink is connected to power attached devices 🔥 (yes, that sentence is a whole vibe, read it twice, it's fine)

ngl this is exactly the kind of quiet background work that keeps your whole dock situation alive and nobody ever thanks it. we thank it. 🫶

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• iic(4)

go read that one too, bestie, it's giving related-content 💜

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the tipd driver first appeared in OpenBSD 7.3 🌈 a whole era, honestly.

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the tipd driver was written by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org> — king behavior, we stan 🎀

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and that's the page!! this Debian build of it is dated December 12, 2022, and the manual page itself is TIPD(4) — mwah, bye bestie 💖✨🍓