about the authors

Until 2005, David Mosberger <dmosberger@gmail.com> was a senior research scientist at hp labs. In early 1998, he founded the project to bring Linux to the IA-64 platform, later developing the first IA-64 version of the GNU C compiler and GNU toolchain. For much of his time at HP, he served as lead architect, developer, and gatekeeper of the IA-64 Linux kernel source code.

Stéphane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com> was a senior research scientist at hp labs. He has been working on the port of Linux to the IA-64 platform since late 1998. He is main architect of the kernel performance monitoring subsystem, and architect and maintainer of the Linux/ia64 elilo boot loader.