[RFC] util/autoport: Ship prebuilt binary via CI

Hi,

As part of modernizing util/autoport to current Go idioms (patch on Gerrit), I bumped the minimum Go version to 1.26.

This got me thinking about a broader usability improvement: right now anyone wanting to use autoport to port a new board needs Go installed locally or do it in another machine. This is the friction i want to remove.

My proposal is add a GitHub Actions workflow that triggers when util/autoport is modified, builds a static Linux x86_64 binary, and publishes it as a GitHub release. Contributors can then just download and run it without setting up a Go toolchain. People who want to compile everything, still can.

Questions before going further:
  - Is there appetite for this in the project?
  - Can coreboot's GitHub mirror have Actions enabled, or would this need to live elsewhere? (i know it only a mirror, but that could be enable exclusively there for all the tooling (I could also see how to do it with jenkins).

Happy to implement the workflow if it 

Abdelkader Boudih

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