Though the pi 3's CPU is actually ARMv8, it runs 32-bit binaries and behaves like an ARMv7 machine:
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
This is hardly the primary place that confusion should be cleared up, but I got tripped up trying to find an arm64 build that would run on my pi, or trying to make one myself, when for instance the official ARMv6 distribution works fine.
Just thought adding this little 3 here might save someone else some wasted time.
DieterReuter
commented
8 years ago
Though the pi 3's CPU is actually ARMv8, it runs 32-bit binaries and behaves like an ARMv7 machine:
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
This is hardly the primary place that confusion should be cleared up, but I got tripped up trying to find an arm64 build that would run on my pi, or trying to make one myself, when for instance the official ARMv6 distribution works fine.
Just thought adding this little 3 here might save someone else some wasted time.