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I'm running Raspbian Stretch on a Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B) and I want to enable HYP mode. Problem is all of the resources I find when searching for enabling HYP mode on a Pi 3 returns resources on how to enable HYP mode on Pi 2.

How do I enable HYP mode on a Raspberry Pi 3?

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Unlike the Raspberry Pi 2 which is based on ARMv7 architecture, Raspberry Pi 3 is based on ARMv8 (more precisely, on ARMv8-A) which solves the hypervisor support in a different way.

According to this article and the ARM Cortex-A Series Programmer’s Guide for ARMv8-A, it uses another privilege level called EL2 (Exception Level 2) and does not require to run in a special run mode like HYP on ARMv7.

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