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boot: separate BIOS from UEFI

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boot/bios/ now holds the MBR, the El Torito stub and the real-mode stage
2; boot/uefi/ is empty and documented.

Separate directories rather than #ifdefs, because the two share almost
nothing. A BIOS loader lives in 16-bit real mode, reaches the firmware
through software interrupts, and walks itself up into long mode. A UEFI
loader is a 64-bit PE that the firmware has already placed in long mode
with paging on, calling services through a table of function pointers.
What they do share is the hand-off contract, which boot/README.md now
writes down: ELF segments placed, long mode, a 24-byte-entry memory map
at E820_MAP_ADDR, framebuffer geometry at VBE_INFO_ADDR.

That contract is the point of documenting it now. UEFI's GetMemoryMap
returns EFI_MEMORY_DESCRIPTORs, and the right move is to translate them
into the entries kernel/arch/x86_64/e820.c already parses rather than
teach the kernel a second format.

Build output paths under $(BUILD)/boot are unchanged; only sources moved.
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// Boot, console and shell share SCH_BG/SCH_FG. The panic screen keeps the
// full-bleed purple entirely to itself, which is what makes it mean something.
//
// Included by boot/stage2main.c (freestanding, pre-kernel), kernel/dev/vga.c,
// Included by boot/bios/stage2main.c (freestanding, pre-kernel), kernel/dev/vga.c,
// kernel/core/console.c and kernel/core/panic.c. Plain #defines only — no
// types, no code — because stage2 is compiled 32-bit against a different
// world than the kernel.