The Gentoo embedded team would like to announce that we will be automatically building and releasing stages for ARM and SuperH/SH. We hope these stages will help out people interested in developing embedded linux applications.

On the ARM side, we are currently releasing stages for the following CHOSTs:

• arm-unknown-linux-gnu (old ABI, in progress)
• armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu (old ABI, in progress)
• armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi (EABI)
• armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi (EABI)

On the SuperH/SH side, we are currently releasing stages for the following processors:

• sh4
• sh4a

The stages are available under the /releases/arm/autobuilds directory for ARM and /releases/sh/autobuilds for SH at your favorite mirror.

Because building stages for these architectures takes a while, we plan on releasing stages on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. If you would like to talk about Gentoo on those architectures, please join us on #gentoo-embedded @ irc.freenode.net.

We would like to thank QNAP Inc. and Marvell Technology Group for providing us with support and hardware for ARM based chips. However we would like to expand our ARM support to the armv6 and armv7 processors. If you or your company can provide us with some hardware we would greatly appreciate it. Please contact the Gentoo ARM team if you or your company are able to assist us.

We would like to also thank Renesas Technology Corp. who has graciously provided us hardware and support for the SuperH platform.