Hans Peter Anvin (12 January 1972), also known as hpa, is a Swedish-American computer programmer who has contributed to

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projects. Anvin is the originator of SYSLINUX, Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA), and various

Linux kernel The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was originally authored in 1991 by Linus Torvalds for his i386-based PC, and it was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU ope ...

features.

History

Peter Anvin grew up in

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. He moved to the

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in 1988, as a teenager, when his father moved to

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. Anvin was previously maintainer of the ''linux.*''

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hierarchy and the Linux kernel archives at kernel.org, wrote the original

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, and the "Linux/I386 Boot Protocol" (file: linux/Documentation/i386/boot.txt) Peter Anvin graduated in 1994 from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, where he also was president of the Northwestern Amateur Radio Society (W9BGX); his

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call sign is AD6QZ (formerly N9ITP). According to his personal web site, he is a believer in the

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. 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, chief maintainer of the

Netwide Assembler The Netwide Assembler (NASM) is an assembler and disassembler for the Intel x86 architecture. It can be used to write 16-bit, 32-bit (IA-32) and 64-bit (x86-64) programs. It is considered one of the most popular assemblers for Linux. It was ori ...

(NASM) and SYSLINUX projects. Previous employers include

Transmeta Transmeta Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California. It developed low power x86 compatible microprocessors based on a VLIW core and a software layer called Code Morphing Software. Code Morphing ...

, where he performed as architect and technical director; Orion Multisystems, working on CPU architecture and code morphing software; and

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Linux kernel works

* UNIX98 ptys *

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driver *The Linux kernel

automounter An automounter is any program or software facility which automatically mounts filesystems in response to access operations by user programs. An automounter system utility (daemon under Unix), when notified of file and directory access attempts unde ...

*zisofs *

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support *

x32 ABI The x32 ABI is an application binary interface (ABI) and one of the interfaces of the Linux kernel. The x32 ABI provides 32-bit integers, long and pointers (ILP32) on Intel and AMD 64-bit hardware. The ABI allows programs to take advantage of the b ...

klibc In computing, klibc is a minimalistic subset of the standard C library developed by H. Peter Anvin. It was developed mainly to be used during the Linux startup process, and it is part of the early user space, i.e. components used during kernel ...

– a minimalistic subset of the

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References

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