doc: move 'Reproducible builds'

Move the README section to the HTML documentation.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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- CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
Reproducible builds
-------------------
In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
process have to be set to a fixed value.
This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
Building the Software:
======================

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source
gcc
clang
reproducible
docker
tools
buildman

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Reproducible builds
===================
In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
process have to be set to a fixed value.
This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable which specifies
the number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.
Example
-------
To build the sandbox with 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z as timestamp we can use:
.. code-block:: bash
make sandbox_defconfig
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1672531200 make
This date is shown when we launch U-Boot:
.. code-block:: console
./u-boot -T
U-Boot 2023.01 (Jan 01 2023 - 00:00:00 +0000)