ArmVirtPkg/NorFlashQemuLib: disable NOR flash DT nodes upon discovery

Our UEFI guest firmware takes ownership of the emulated NOR flash in
order to support the variable runtime services, and it does not expect
the OS to interfere with the underlying storage directly. So disable
the NOR flash DT nodes as we discover them, in a way similar to how we
disable the PL031 RTC in the device tree when we attach our RTC runtime
driver to it.

Note that this also hides the NOR flash bank that carries the UEFI
executable code, but this is not intended to be updatable from inside
the guest anyway, and if it was, we should use capsule update to do so.
Also, the first -pflash argument that defines the backing for this flash
bank is often issued with the 'readonly' modifier, in order to prevent
any changes whatsoever to be made to the executable firmware image by
the guest.

This issue has become relevant due to the following Linux changes,
which enable the flash driver stack for default build configurations
targetting arm64 and 32-bit ARM.

ce693fc2a877
("arm64: defconfig: Enable flash device drivers for QorIQ boards", 2020-03-16).

5f068190cc10
("ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable support for CFI NOR FLASH", 2019-04-03)

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daude <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>

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