Rollup merge of #56769 - dvdhrm:uefi-target, r=alexcrichton

Add x86_64-unknown-uefi target

This adds a new rustc target-configuration called 'x86_64-unknown_uefi'.
Furthermore, it adds a UEFI base-configuration to be used with other
targets supported by UEFI (e.g., i386, armv7hl, aarch64, itanium, ...).

UEFI systems provide a very basic operating-system environment, meant
to unify how systems are booted. It is tailored for simplicity and fast
setup, as it is only meant to bootstrap other systems. For instance, it
copies most of the ABI from Microsoft Windows, rather than inventing
anything on its own. Furthermore, any complex CPU features are
disabled. Only one CPU is allowed to be up, no interrupts other than
the timer-interrupt are allowed, no process-separation is performed,
page-tables are identity-mapped, ...

Nevertheless, UEFI has an application model. Its main purpose is to
allow operating-system vendors to write small UEFI applications that
load their kernel and terminate the UEFI system. However, many other
UEFI applications have emerged in the past, including network-boot,
debug-consoles, and more.

This UEFI target allows to compile rust code natively as UEFI
applications. No standard library support is added, but libcore can be
used out-of-the-box if a panic-handler is provided. Furthermore,
liballoc works as well, if a `GlobalAlloc` handler is provided. Both
have been tested with this target-configuration.

Note that full libstd support is unlikely to happen. While UEFI does
have standardized interfaces for networking and alike, none of these
are mandatory and they are unlikely to be shipped in common consumer
firmwares. Furthermore, several features like process-separation are
not available (or only in very limited fashion). Those parts of libstd
would have to be masked.

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