simd/archsimd/_gen/simdgen: feature implications

This simplifies our handling of XED features, adds a table of which
features imply which other features, and adds this information to the
documentation of the CPU features APIs.

As part of this we fix an issue around the "AVXAES" feature. AVXAES is
defined as the combination of the AVX and AES CPUID flags. Several
other features also work like this, but have hand-written logic in
internal/cpu to compute logical feature flags from the underlying
CPUID bits. For these, we expose a single feature check function from
the SIMD API.

AVXAES currently doesn't work like this: it requires the user to check
both features. However, this forces the SIMD API to expose an "AES"
feature check, which really has nothing to do with SIMD. To make this
consistent, we introduce an AVXAES feature check function and use it
in feature requirement docs. Unlike the others combo features, this is
implemented in the simd package, but the difference is invisible to
the user.

Change-Id: I2985ebd361f0ecd45fd428903efe4c981a5ec65d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/736100
LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI <golang-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
Reviewed-by: Cherry Mui <cherryyz@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Junyang Shao <shaojunyang@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/736200
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
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