[Bug 274172] 14.0-BETA4 Release announcement (aarch64 qemu firmware)

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=274172

            Bug ID: 274172
           Summary: 14.0-BETA4 Release announcement (aarch64 qemu
                    firmware)
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
               URL: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2023
                    -September/001517.html
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Books & Articles
          Assignee: doc@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: dhorn2000@gmail.com
                CC: gjb@FreeBSD.org, imp@bsdimp.com

14.0 BETA3/BETA4 Release announcement include the following text: (which is now
OBE)

OBE>Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine images: a modified QEMU EFI
OBE>loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be able to boot the
OBE>virtual machine images.  See this page for more information:
OBE>
OBE>    https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/QEMU

>>To boot the VM image, run:
>>
>>    % qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt  \
>>        -bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::4444,server -nographic \
>>        -drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0 \
>>        -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
>>        -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \
>>        -netdev user,id=net0
>>
>>Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to the virtual machine image.

Probably best to remove the lines I marked as OBE, and update the single line
that references the bios filename to the new default UEFI aarch64 firmware of
`edk2-aarch64-code.fd` (included with qemu port, so no download needed). 
Committer can decide if leaving the link to the wiki up in the announcement is
still desirable.

-        -bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::4444,server -nographic \
+        -bios edk2-aarch64-code.fd -serial telnet::4444,server -nographic \

I'm going to see if I can help create some Handbook documentation for Qemu in
the future as recommended by Warner, but for now I recommend we at least make
the release announcement accurate.

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