What is difference between arm64 and armhf?

armhf stands for “arm hard float”, and is the name given to a debian port for arm processors (armv7+) that have hardware floating point support. On the beaglebone black, for example: Although other commands (such as uname -a or arch) will just show armv7l The vfpv3 listed under Features is what refers to the floating point support. Incidentally, armhf, if your processor supports it, basically supersedes Raspbian, which … Read more

Differences between arm64 and aarch64

AArch64 is the 64-bit state introduced in the Armv8-A architecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8-A). The 32-bit state which is backwards compatible with Armv7-A and previous 32-bit Arm architectures is referred to as AArch32. Therefore the GNU triplet for the 64-bit ISA is aarch64. The Linux kernel community chose to call their port of the kernel to this architecture … Read more