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Paper — Canon MegaTank 5B00 native reset

IEEE conference-style writeup of the open, native-Linux, key-free, cloud-free reproduction of the Canon MegaTank (G6000-series) 5B00 waste-ink reset.

Contents

File Purpose
canon-megatank-reset.tex The paper (single-file IEEEtran conference paper).
references.bib BibTeX bibliography (IEEEtran style).
IEEEtran.cls, IEEEtran.bst Vendored IEEE class + bib style (no system TeX needed).
bytefield.sty Wire-frame byte diagrams.
cleveref.sty \Cref/\cref cross-references (loaded after hyperref).
balance.sty Last-page two-column balancing.

The .cls/.bst/.sty files are vendored (mirroring hiberpower-ntfs/docs/paper) so tectonic needs no extra TeX-live install in CI or locally.

Build

cd docs/paper
tectonic canon-megatank-reset.tex
# -> canon-megatank-reset.pdf

This is exactly what the CI draft runs.

CI

../../.github/workflows/build-paper.yml.draft mirrors the hiberpower build-paper.yml (paths-filter on docs/paper/**, wtfjoke/setup-tectonic@v3, build, upload artifact, auto-commit the PDF on push to main). It is intentionally left as .draft — CI is not enabled. Rename to build-paper.yml to activate.

Hermetic (optional) — rules_tectonic + Bazel

The repo has no Bazel root yet, so the plain-tectonic path above is the lower-friction default. For a fully hermetic, cache-backed build, bootstrap Bazel:

MODULE.bazel (repo root):

bazel_dep(name = "rules_tectonic", version = "0.1.0")
git_override(
    name = "rules_tectonic",
    remote = "https://github.com/Jesssullivan/rules_tectonic.git",
    commit = "89076e07a0f62eb68b2756c0014cd0dcbc04ff8d",
)

docs/paper/BUILD.bazel:

load("@rules_tectonic//tectonic:defs.bzl", "tectonic_pdf")

tectonic_pdf(
    name = "canon-megatank-reset",
    src = "canon-megatank-reset.tex",
    data = [
        "references.bib",
        "IEEEtran.cls",
        "IEEEtran.bst",
        "bytefield.sty",
        "cleveref.sty",
        "balance.sty",
    ],
)
# -> bazel-bin/docs/paper/canon-megatank-reset.pdf

Both the MODULE.bazel root and BUILD.bazel are drafts above — they are not committed, since the repo's current CI (ci.yml) is Nix/just-based and does not yet have a Bazel cache wrapper.

Pre-commit note (huskycat / high-entropy false positive)

The .tex listings contain 40+ character cipher hex (e.g. the 23-byte validated frames). The global pre-commit hook's check_high_entropy will false-positive on these. The durable fix (per project memory) is to extend the hook's ALLOWED_FILE_PATTERNS allowlist to cover documentation paths rather than weaken the entropy check:

# in ~/.config/git/hooks/pre-commit, add to ALLOWED_FILE_PATTERNS:
  'docs/paper/'
  'docs/research/'

This mirrors the existing docs/research cipher-hex situation; the allowlist is a file-path allowlist (the entropy check is still active for all non-doc files).

Status

The paper is a skeleton with grounded prose stubs: every section is present with real, citation-backed content drawn from the validated in-repo RE notes (docs/research/, docs/runbook/g6020-native-reset.md). References tagged TODO: in references.bib need a primary-source bibliographic confirmation before submission. Figures (bytefield wire frames, the session state machine, the DRM gate sequence) and tables are populated from the recovered evidence.