Add FirrtlStage, make Driver compatibility layer
This adds FirrtlStage, a reimplementation of the original FIRRTL Driver as a Stage. This updates the original firrtl.options package to implement FirrtlStage (namely, TransformLike is added) along with FirrtlMain. Finally, the original FIRRTL Driver is converted to a compatibility wrapper around FirrtlStage. For background, Stage and Phase form the basis of the Chisel/FIRRTL Hardware Compiler Framework (HCF). A Phase is a class that performs a mathematical transformation on an AnnotationSeq (in effect, a generalization of a FIRRTL transform). Curtly, a Stage is a Phase that also provides a user interface for generating annotations. By their construction, Phases are designed to be composed sequentially into a transformation pipeline. This modifies the existing options package (which provides Stage/Phase) to build out a type hierarchy around Stage/Phase. This adds TransformLike[A] which implements a mathematical transformation over some type A. Additionally...
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