Thomas Gleixner
Thomas Gleixner (born February 24, 1962 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German programmer .
Life
Thomas Gleixner studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich . He is primarily involved in the development of the Linux kernel and has made significant contributions here.
He is the managing director of his company Linutronix, which is a founding member of the Open Source Automation Development Lab . Gleixner is also a speaker with lectures on Linux and its application in embedded systems and embedded real-time systems , in particular on the subject of "RT_Preempt Patch for Linux" (real-time for mainline Linux).
Gleixner lives in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen on Lake Constance , is married and has five children. Since 1981 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Tuiskonia Munich in the CV .
Contributions to the Linux kernel
Gleixner continuously makes smaller and larger contributions to the Linux kernel. Among the developers who contributed to the kernel between version 2.6.12 and version 3.2, it ranks sixth with 2190 changes (0.8% of changes). If only the versions between 2.6.35 and 3.2 are taken into account, it is in second place with 798 changes (1.1% of these changes).
His larger projects include:
- High Resolution Timers (hrtimer)
- Realtime Linux; Here he works closely with Ingo Molnar together
- NAND flash driver
He is one of the initiators of the merging of the source code for the i386 and x86_64 architectures. Since October 2007 he has been the maintainer of the newly created x86 architecture together with Ingo Molnár and H. Peter Anvin .
Gleixner has been invited to the annual Linux Kernel Summit , a non-public meeting of the most active kernel developers, for several years.
In January 2018, Linus Torvalds thanked Gleixner on the Linux Kernel Mailing List for his coordination and work in fixing the security vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Specter in modern CPUs.
Fonts
- Thomas Gleixner, Douglas Niehaus: Hrtimers and Beyond: Transforming the Linux Time Subsystems. In: Proceedings of the Linux Symposium. July 19th – 22nd, 2006 Ottawa, Ontario Canada. Vol. 1, p. 333–346 ( online ; PDF; 272 kB).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics on Kernel 2.6.24 on LWN (January 2008, engl.)
- ^ Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jonathan Corbet, Amanda McPherson: Linux Kernel Development. How Fast it is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It by. Linux Foundation, March 2008 ( PDF file )
- ↑ a b Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Amanda McPherson, Linux Foundation: Linux Kernel Development: How Fast it is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It. Linux Foundation, March 2012 (English ) ( PDF file )
- ↑ See Gleixner, Niehaus 2006.
- ↑ People who work on Linux Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
- ↑ Git commit of the x86 maintainer entry ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ List of invited participants of the Linux Kernel Summit 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
- ↑ Post in the Linux Kernel Mailing List from January 7, 2018 https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/7/255
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gleixner, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Linux kernel developer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kempten (Allgäu) |