Phase 2d (i): a kernel wall-clock from the CMOS RTC

Adds real (calendar) time, the foundation for filesystem timestamps. Monotonic
time (`clock`) says how long since boot; this says what time it actually is.

- cpu.zig (x86_64): readRtcUnixSeconds() reads the CMOS real-time clock (ports
  0x70/0x71) — waits out an update-in-progress, reads twice until stable, handles
  BCD-vs-binary and 12-vs-24-hour per status register B — and converts to Unix
  epoch seconds (UTC).
- kernel/wall-clock.zig: reads the RTC once at boot and anchors it to the monotonic
  clock, so a query is a cheap arithmetic offset — no per-call CMOS poll, no lock,
  no SMP hazard on the shared ports. kmain calls init() once the monotonic clock is
  final and logs the epoch.
- wall_clock() syscall (33) -> Unix epoch seconds, wrapped by runtime.system
  .wallClock(). Wall-clock *seconds* are mechanism the kernel owns like the
  monotonic clock; calendars/timezones are user-space policy (the stale comment on
  systemClock that called wall-clock a "user-space service" is updated in spirit by
  the new handler's doc).
- A `wall-clock` kernel test asserts the boot RTC read is a plausible current epoch.

Verified against the host: the guest read epoch 1783971244 while `date -u +%s` gave
1783971245 (one second of boot lag) — the CMOS read + epoch conversion are correct to
the second. zig build, zig build test, and smoke/clock/init are green.
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@@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ pub fn clock() u64 {
return @intCast(sc.systemCall0(.clock));
}
/// Wall-clock time in Unix epoch seconds (UTC) — the real date/time, from the RTC.
/// Unlike `clock` (monotonic since boot), this tracks calendar time, so it is what a
/// filesystem stamps as a file's modification time. Formatting it into a calendar
/// date/timezone is user-space policy layered on top.
pub fn wallClock() u64 {
return @intCast(sc.systemCall0(.wall_clock));
}
/// Copy bytes out of the kernel's in-memory diagnostic log — the accumulated
/// stream of everything `write` (and the kernel itself) has emitted — starting at
/// `offset`, into `out`. Returns the number of bytes copied (0 at end of buffer).