OvmfPkg/RiscVVirt/README: explain the "acpi=off" machine property

"acpi=off" is arguably unusual with UEFI guest OSes; add a note to explain
it. Original explanation by Drew Jones.

Cc: Andrei Warkentin <andrei.warkentin@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianocore@kernel.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Cc: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
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@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ Below example shows how to boot openSUSE Tumbleweed E20.
-device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
-drive file=openSUSE-Tumbleweed-RISC-V-E20-efi.riscv64.raw,format=raw,id=hd0
Note: the `acpi=off` machine property is specified because Linux guest
support for ACPI (that is, the ACPI consumer side) is a work in progress.
Currently, `acpi=off` is recommended unless you are developing ACPI support
yourself.
## Test with your own OpenSBI binary
Using the above QEMU command line, **RISCV_VIRT_CODE.fd** is launched by the
OpenSBI binary that is bundled with QEMU. You can build your own OpenSBI binary