[OPEN CALL šŸ“£] Bring NymVPN to OpenWRT!

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Proposal: Dropping MIPS/ARMv5 Support for Nym VPN OpenWrt

Looking for community feedback on whether to continue supporting older architectures (MIPS, MIPSEL, ARMv5) for the OpenWrt builds.

The Problem

These are 32-bit platforms that lack hardware support for 64-bit atomic operations. Every time an upstream dependency uses AtomicU64 (common in Rust async/networking code), the build breaks and requires manually patching the crate.

Weā€™re already maintaining patches for 5 crates (schemars, coarsetime, prometheus, gateway-client, credential-verification), and boringtun just broke the build. This pattern will continue as the codebase evolves.

Unaffected Architectures

The following targets build cleanly with no patches:

  • x86_64
  • i686
  • aarch64
  • armv7
  • riscv64

Affected Architectures

  • MIPS (mips_24kc) - Atheros/Qualcomm routers
  • MIPSEL (mipsel_24kc, mips_siflower) - MediaTek MIPS, GL.iNet SFT1200
  • ARMv5 (arm_arm926ej-s, arm_cortex-a9) - Legacy ARM devices

These are generally very old / weak router hardware.

Question for the Community

Is anyone running (or planning to run) Nym VPN on MIPS or ARMv5 hardware?

If thereā€™s no significant demand, weā€™d prefer to drop these targets and focus maintenance effort on the architectures that build cleanly.

Let us know in the poll if youā€™re using one of the affected platforms.

  • My device is affected
  • My device is not affected
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Has an impressive price & Performance relation:

Regards

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