32-bit ARM router (WRT1900ACS Cortex-A9)

[Sohails001]

What about us folks on 32-Bit Arn Router? Are we out of luck as it doesn't support it.

[gnacho]

Hi! Good news first: 32-bit ARM is already supported. Every release ships generic linux-armv5/armv6/armv7 binaries, plus packages for ipq40xx (cortex-a7), bcm2708 (armv6) and kirkwood (xscale), in both ipk and apk.

Your WRT1900ACS is mvebu/cortexa9, which happens to be the one ARM target missing from our packaging matrix. In the meantime, the plain netgrip-linux-armv7 binary from the latest release should run on stock OpenWrt mvebu as-is: just scp it over and run it, no package needed.

If you would like a proper apk/ipk for your router, the change is small: two entries for mvebu/cortexa9 in .github/workflows/openwrt-package.yml. A PR would be very welcome. I do not have any 32-bit ARM hardware to test on here, so if you give the binary a try, hearing how it went on real hardware would be genuinely useful.