docs/LoongArch: Add booting description

1, Describe the information passed from BootLoader to kernel.
2, Describe the meaning and values of the kernel image header field.

Suggested-by: Xiaotian Wu <wuxiaotian@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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Booting Linux/LoongArch
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:Author: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
:Date: 18 Nov 2022
Information passed from BootLoader to kernel
============================================
LoongArch supports ACPI and FDT. The information that needs to be passed
to the kernel includes the memmap, the initrd, the command line, optionally
the ACPI/FDT tables, and so on.
The kernel is passed the following arguments on `kernel_entry` :
- a0 = efi_boot: `efi_boot` is a flag indicating whether
this boot environment is fully UEFI-compliant.
- a1 = cmdline: `cmdline` is a pointer to the kernel command line.
- a2 = systemtable: `systemtable` points to the EFI system table.
All pointers involved at this stage are in physical addresses.
Header of Linux/LoongArch kernel images
=======================================
Linux/LoongArch kernel images are EFI images. Being PE files, they have
a 64-byte header structured like::
u32 MZ_MAGIC /* "MZ", MS-DOS header */
u32 res0 = 0 /* Reserved */
u64 kernel_entry /* Kernel entry point */
u64 _end - _text /* Kernel image effective size */
u64 load_offset /* Kernel image load offset from start of RAM */
u64 res1 = 0 /* Reserved */
u64 res2 = 0 /* Reserved */
u64 res3 = 0 /* Reserved */
u32 LINUX_PE_MAGIC /* Magic number */
u32 pe_header - _head /* Offset to the PE header */

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:numbered:
introduction
booting
irq-chip-model
features