docs: power: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst

Convert the PM documents to ReST, in order to allow them to
build with Sphinx.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and indentation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>

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+==========================
+Regulator API design notes
+==========================
+
+This document provides a brief, partially structured, overview of some
+of the design considerations which impact the regulator API design.
+
+Safety
+------
+
+ - Errors in regulator configuration can have very serious consequences
+   for the system, potentially including lasting hardware damage.
+ - It is not possible to automatically determine the power configuration
+   of the system - software-equivalent variants of the same chip may
+   have different power requirements, and not all components with power
+   requirements are visible to software.
+
+.. note::
+
+     The API should make no changes to the hardware state unless it has
+     specific knowledge that these changes are safe to perform on this
+     particular system.
+
+Consumer use cases
+------------------
+
+ - The overwhelming majority of devices in a system will have no
+   requirement to do any runtime configuration of their power beyond
+   being able to turn it on or off.
+
+ - Many of the power supplies in the system will be shared between many
+   different consumers.
+
+.. note::
+
+     The consumer API should be structured so that these use cases are
+     very easy to handle and so that consumers will work with shared
+     supplies without any additional effort.