Readme.md: add submodule policy and clone commands

REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910

A section 'Submodules' is added to clarify the submodule policy
in edk2 repo. Git commands are also added to show the correct
way to clone submodule repos, in which '--recursive' is removed
because it's not needed but recommended in other document.

Related commits:
Openssl-1.1.1b upgrade: acfb909118
berkeley-softfloat-3:   3cc57695df

Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
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# Submodules
Submodule in EDK II is allowed but submodule chain should be avoided
as possible as we can. Currently EDK II contains two submodules
- CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl
- ArmPkg/Library/ArmSoftFloatLib/berkeley-softfloat-3
The latter one is actually required by previous one. It's inevitable
in openssl-1.1.1 (since stable201905) for floating point parameter
conversion, but should be dropped once there's no such need in future
release of openssl.
To get a full, buildable EDK II repository, use following steps of git
command
```
$ git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git
$ cd edk2
$ git submodule update --init
$ cd ..
```
If there's update for submodules, use following git commands to get the
latest submodules code.
```
$ cd edk2
$ git pull
$ git submodule update
```
Note: When cloning submodule repos, '--recursive' option is not
recommended. EDK II itself will not use any code/feature from
submodules in above submodules. So using '--recursive' adds a
dependency on being able to reach servers we do not actually want
any code from, as well as needlessly downloading code we will not
use.