The Raspberry Pi 3 is ARM64 (Cortex-A53). However the Raspberry Pi foundation has thus far chosen not to ship an aarch64 version of Raspbian so software for pre

The Raspberry Pi 3 is ARM64 (Cortex-A53). However the Raspberry Pi foundation has thus far chosen not to ship an aarch64 version of Raspbian so software for previous Raspberry Pi units remains compatible. The BCM2837 on the RPi 3 is ARMv8 (aarch64/ARM64). [0] [0] https://devsidestory.com/build-a-64-bit-kernel-for-your-raspberry-pi-3/ https://devsidestory.com/build-a-64-bit-kernel-for-your-rasp...