It works well on an armv6l system.
Still valid for 5.5.0.
General usage of app-admin/collectd-5.5.1 should be fine for ARM. For plugins using packages not available for ARM please apply USE masks in ARM profile.
Profile masks are now set: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=51d4035e2ad5332dc63ed95246c063a803baeade So we are now waiting for bug 577424 and ARM arch team.
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1d49cb91c8193f602dce40ddc5ab265952848cad