Achieved:
* Set up networking on the Panda board, ssh to the board from my laptop works fine.
* Downloaded the benchmarks (SPEC2000 and EEMBC) and built them for x86. I now have a basic understanding of what the benchmarks do and how to run them.
* For EEMBC I used the -m32 flag for building on my 64 bit installation.
* For the SPEC2000 I used the Linaro configuration file and enabled the portability flags for a 64-bit host. Played around with different "runspec" actions and options. Building and running individual test cases as well as the full test suites. Finally I did a reportable run for all benchmarks. It took several hours and in the end I got a result for my laptop.

Next step:
* Cross-compile EEMBC and SPEC2000. I will try linaro-gcc and the cross compiler that comes with Natty.



Best Regards
Åsa