Peter Anvin
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| Born | 12 January 1972 Västerås, Sweden |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Swedish |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👔 Employer | Intel Corporation |
| Known for | SYSLINUX,[1][2][3] Linux kernel |
| 🌐 Website | http://www.zytor.com/~hpa |
Hans Peter Anvin (born 12 January 1972), also known as H. Peter Anvin, Peter Anvin, or even hpa, is a Swedish-American computer programmer who has contributed to free and open-source software projects.
Anvin is the originator of SYSLINUX,[1][2][3] Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA), and various Linux kernel features.[1]
History[edit]
Peter Anvin grew up in Västerås, Sweden. He moved to the United States in 1988, as a teenager, when his father moved to Chicago.[4]
Anvin was previously maintainer of the linux.* Usenet newsgroup hierarchy[1] and the Linux kernel archives at kernel.org, wrote the original Swap Space How-to, and the "Linux/I386 Boot Protocol" (file: linux/Documentation/i386/boot.txt)
Peter Anvin graduated in 1994 from Northwestern University,[5] where he also was president of the Northwestern Amateur Radio Society (W9BGX); his amateur radio call sign is AD6QZ (formerly N9ITP). According to his personal web site, he is a believer in the Baháʼí Faith.[6]
In addition to his regular employment at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, Anvin was a long-time co-maintainer of the unified x86/x86-64 Linux kernel tree,[7] chief maintainer of the Netwide Assembler (NASM) and SYSLINUX projects.[3] Previous employers include Transmeta, where he performed as architect and technical director; Orion Multisystems, working on CPU architecture and code morphing software; and rPath.
Linux kernel works[edit]
- UNIX98 ptys
- CPUID driver
- The Linux kernel automounter
- zisofs[3]
- RAID 6 support[8]
- x32 ABI[9]
- klibc – a minimalistic subset of the standard C library
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Who is Who". Scania & Zealand (Denmark): Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved August 2, 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "List of Linux Luminaries". Who's Who. Linux Online. 2008. Archived from the original on March 9, 2009. Retrieved August 2, 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Developer page – H. Peter Anvin". Softpedia. 2009. Archived from the original on April 3, 2010. Retrieved August 2, 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Han snodde Finlands Linux-Linus". Vestmanlands Läns Tidning (in Swedish). 15 February 2003.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "Reunion 2009 – Class of 1994 – Who's Wanted". Reunions & Homecoming. Northwestern Alumni Association. April 8, 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved August 2, 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "H. Peter Anvin's home page". Archived from the original on May 4, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2013. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ H. Peter Anvin (Jan 25, 2018). "x86: Mark hpa as a "Designated Reviewer" for the time being". Retrieved Jan 29, 2018.
- ↑ Anvin, H. Peter (2004–2009). "The mathematics of RAID-6" (PDF). kernel.org. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
- ↑ H. Peter Anvin (August 27, 2011). "RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers". Retrieved Jan 29, 2018.
- General
- Linux kernel traffic quotes: H. Peter Anvin
- Kehrer, Anika; Magnus, Nils (March 26, 2009). "Video Interview with Kernel Developer Peter Anvin". Linux Magazine. Linux New Media. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
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