Hans Peter Anvin

Who is Hans Peter Anvin?

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, Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority, and various Linux kernel features such as:

UNIX98 ptys

CPUID driver

The Linux kernel automounter

zisofs

RAID 6 support

x32 ABI

klibc – a minimalistic subset of the standard C library

Anvin was previously maintainer of the linux.* Usenet newsgroup hierarchy and the Linux kernel archives at kernel.org, wrote the original Swap Space How-to, and the "Linux/I386 Boot Protocol"

Peter Anvin graduated in 1994 from Northwestern University, where he also was president of the Northwestern Amateur Radio Society; his amateur radio call sign is AD6QZ. According to his personal web site, he is a believer in the Bahá'í Faith.

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.