docs: document ACPI usage in PVHv2 guests

It is possible for PVHv2 guests to get the hardware description from ACPI
tables, add this to the documentation also.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
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@@ -64,3 +64,14 @@ The following VCPU hypercalls can be used in order to bring up secondary vCPUs:
* `VCPUOP_down` is used to bring down a vCPU.
* `VCPUOP_is_up` is used to scan the number of available vCPUs.
## Hardware description ##
PVHv2 guests that have access to hardware (either emulated or real) will also
have ACPI tables with the description of the hardware that's available to the
guest. This applies to both privileged and unprivileged guests. A hint of
the position of the RSDP in memory (if present) can be fetched from the start
info structure that's passed at boot time (field rsdp_paddr).
Description of paravirtualized devices will come from XenStore, just as it's
done for HVM guests.
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