Swedish-American computer programmer

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, Linux *igned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA), and various Linux kernel features.

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.

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" (file: linux/Do*entation/i386/boot.txt)

Peter Anvin graduated in 1994 from Northwestern University, 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.

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 *embler (NASM) and SYSLINUX projects.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
• RAID 6 support
• x32 ABI
• klibc – a minimalistic subset of the standard C library

References

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.

TechnicalUserspaceComponents

• Kernel modules
• BlueZ
• cgroups
• Console
• bcache
• Device mapper
• dm-cache
• dm-crypt
• DRM
• EDAC
• evdev
• Kernel same-page merging (KSM)
• LIO
• Framebuffer
• LVM
• KMS driver
• Netfilter
• Netlink
• nftables
• Network scheduler
• perf
• SLUB
• zram
• zswap

• Process and I/O schedulers:
• O(n) scheduler
• O(1) scheduler
• Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS)
• Brain * Scheduler
• Noop scheduler
• SCHED_DEADLINE

• Security Modules: AppArmor
• Exec Shield
• seccomp
• SELinux
• Smack
• Tomoyo Linux
• Linux PAM

• Device drivers
  • 802.11
  • graphics
• Raw device

• initramfs
• KernelCare
• kexec
• kGraft
• kpatch
• Ksplice

Variants

• Mainline
  • Linux kernel
  • Linux-libre
• High-performance computing
  • INK
  • Compute Node Linux
  • SLURM
• Real-time computing
  • RTLinux
  • RTAI
  • Xenomai
  • Carrier Grade Linux
• MMU-less
  • μClinux
  • PSXLinux

Adoption

• Category