I wonder if qemu has a debugger, and what it's like. If a kernel is crashing you'll generally like to have debugging tools that are outside the level of the operating environment, either sitting in an emulator or through a hardware debug environment like those often provided via JTAG.
Confirming that it gets as far on Pandora might be satisfying in some sense, but not very useful. If anything is done it should be to help get it to some state of working on ARM, and since Pandora won't (easily) provide the above environment and because there aren't that many other people who have one I'm not sure if it's a good platform for fixing this in.