Setup a local environment and benchmark SPEC and EEMBC

Headline: N/A

Acceptance: N/A

Work items:
Acquire a Snowball board[3]: DONE
Acquire a PandaBoard[1]: DONE
Acquire required hardware[2]: DONE
Use linaro-media-create to setup a SD card with Linaro 11.05: DONE
Boot 11.05 on the board: DONE
Setup networking: DONE
Setup networking, user accounts, and SSH access: DONE
Build Linaro GCC: POSTPONED
Acquire EEMBC and SPEC 2000: DONE
Do a test run on a x86 machine: DONE
Use Linaro GCC to build and run EEMBC on the board: DONE

Work items for 4.6-2011.09:
Use Linaro GCC to build and run SPEC 2000 on the board: DONE
Read, understand, and check the validity of the results: DONE
Repeat for the other board: DONE
Contrast the results from both boards[3]: DONE
Document[4]: DONE

[1] I've included the PandaBoard as it has the best kernel support and
is commonly used within the toolchain group.

[2] you'll need sufficient to make a SD card, boot it, check the
serial console, and bring it on to the network. This probably
includes:
 * Three 8 GB+ SD cards
 * A USB SD card reader
 * A USB to serial adapter and gender changers/null modem
 * Power supplies (as required)
 * Three network cables
 * A 100 MB switch, if needed

[3] is a V1 version with 512 MB RAM
[2] is borrowed for 2 weeks

I recommend getting a USB flash drive or HDD to use as the rootfs.
I've had a bad run with SD cards and they're also terribly slow.

Once installed, you should be able to log in over SSH and do
interesting things as a normal user.

[3] is an exercise for you. We're not allowed to share any results at
the moment. I'm interested to see which are purely core bound and
score exactly the same on both boards.

[4] is to document the steps that you went through to a good enough
level that other new people could reproduce it.