H. Peter Anvin

Hans Peter Anvin (born 12 January 1972), also known as 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]

H. Peter Anvin
Anvin speaking at FOSDEM in 2009
Born	Hans Peter Anvin (1972-01-12) 12 January 1972 (age 53) Västerås, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation	Software engineer
Employer	Intel Corporation
Known for	SYSLINUX,[1][2][3] Linux kernel
Website	www.zytor.com/~hpa

History

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

• 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