Hans Peter Anvin
| Peter Anvin | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 12, 1972 Västerås,  Sweden |
| Residence | San Jose, California[1] |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Employer | Intel Corporation |
| Known for | SYSLINUX,[1][2][3] Linux kernel |
| Website | H. Peter Anvin's nonexistent home page |
Hans Peter Anvin, known as H. Peter Anvin, or simply Peter Anvin, or even hpa, is a Swedish computer programmer who has distinguished himself by his contributions to Free and open source software projects. He is the originator of SYSLINUX,[1][2][3] Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA), and various Linux kernel features[1] such as:
- UNIX98 ptys
- CPUID driver
- The Linux kernel automounter
- zisofs[3]
- RAID 6 support[4]
- x32 ABI[5]
- klibc – a minimalistic subset of the standard C library
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,[6] 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 Bahá'í Faith.[7]
In addition to his regular employment at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, Anvin is currently co-maintainer of the unified x86/x86-64 Linux kernel tree, 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.
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