DynamicTablesPkg: FdtHwInfoParser: Generic Timer Parser

The Generic Timer Description Table (GTDT) is a mandatory table
required for booting a standards-based operating system. It
provides an OSPM with information about a system's Generic Timer
configuration. The Generic Timer (GT) is a standard timer interface
implemented on ARM processor-based systems. The GTDT provides OSPM
with information about a system's GT interrupt configurations, for
both per-processor timers, and platform (memory-mapped) timers.

The Generic Timer information is described in the platform Device
Tree. The Device Tree bindings for the Generic timers can be found
at:
 - linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,arch_timer.yaml

The FdtHwInfoParser implements a Generic Timer Parser that parses
the platform Device Tree to create a CM_ARM_GENERIC_TIMER_INFO
object. The CM_ARM_GENERIC_TIMER_INFO object is encapsulated in a
Configuration Manager descriptor object and added to the platform
information repository.

The platform Configuration Manager can then utilise this information
when generating the GTDT table.

Note: The Generic Timer Parser currently does not support parsing
of memory-mapped platform timers.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <Pierre.Gondois@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Mujawar <sami.mujawar@arm.com>

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