Doc/relnotes/4.13: Add several relevant changes

While some of these have little impact, they are worth mentioning here.

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Signed-off-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/47444
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Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
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@ -13,6 +13,27 @@ Update this document with changes that should be in the release notes.
Significant changes
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### Native refcode implementation for Bay Trail
Bay Trail no longer needs a refcode binary to function properly. The refcode
was reimplemented as coreboot code, which should be functionally equivalent.
Thus, coreboot only needs to run the MRC.bin to successfully boot Bay Trail.
### Unusual config files to build test more code
There's some new highly-unusual config files, whose only purpose is to coerce
Jenkins into build-testing several disabled-by-default coreboot config options.
This prevents them from silently decaying over time because of build failures.
### Initial support for Intel Trusted eXecution Technology
coreboot now supports enabling Intel TXT. Though it's not feature-complete yet,
the code allows successfully launching tboot, a Measured Launch Environment. It
was tested on Haswell using an Asrock B85M Pro4 mainboard with TPM 2.0 on LPC.
Though support for other platforms is still not ready, it is being worked on.
The Haswell MRC.bin needs to be patched so as to enable DPR. Given that the MRC
binary cannot be redistributed, the best long-term solution is to replace it.
### Hidden PCI devices
This new functionality takes advantage of the existing 'hidden' keyword in the