devicetree: Add a registry of vendor prefixes

There is no centralized listing for the in-use vendor prefixes
used in compatible strings and property names.  This patch adds one.
New prefixes should get added to this list to reduce the likelyhood
of namespace collisions.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>

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+Device tree binding vendor prefix registry.  Keep list in alphabetical order.
+
+This isn't an exhaustive list, but you should add new prefixes to it before
+using them to avoid name-space collisions.
+
+adi    Analog Devices, Inc.
+amcc   Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (APM, formally AMCC)
+apm    Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (APM)
+arm    ARM Ltd.
+chrp   Common Hardware Reference Platform
+dallas Maxim Integrated Products (formerly Dallas Semiconductor)
+denx   Denx Software Engineering
+epson  Seiko Epson Corp.
+est    ESTeem Wireless Modems
+fsl    Freescale Semiconductor
+GEFanuc        GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Embedded Systems, Inc.
+gef    GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Embedded Systems, Inc.
+hp     Hewlett Packard
+ibm    International Business Machines (IBM)
+idt    Integrated Device Technologies, Inc.
+intercontrol   Inter Control Group
+linux  Linux-specific binding
+marvell        Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
+maxim  Maxim Integrated Products
+mosaixtech     Mosaix Technologies, Inc.
+national       National Semiconductor
+nintendo       Nintendo
+nvidia NVIDIA
+nxp    NXP Semiconductors
+powervr        Imagination Technologies
+ramtron        Ramtron International
+samsung        Samsung Semiconductor
+schindler      Schindler
+simtek
+sirf   SiRF Technology, Inc.
+stericsson     ST-Ericsson
+ti     Texas Instruments
+xlnx   Xilinx