[v2 3/9] x86/cpu: determining x86 vendor early

In order to support early time stamps we must know the vendor id of the chip early in boot. This patch implements it by getting vendor string from cpuid, and comparing it against the known to Linux x86 vendors. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin ---

[v2 3/9] x86/cpu: determining x86 vendor early

In order to support early time stamps we must know the vendor id of the chip early in boot. This patch implements it by getting vendor string from cpuid, and comparing it against the known to Linux x86 vendors. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin --- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 1 +