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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@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ pub const SystemCall = enum(u64) {
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process_signal = 30, // process_signal(id, signal) -> 0/-errno: post a signal to a child (or to yourself)
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timer_bind = 31, // timer_bind(endpoint, ms) -> 0/-errno: one-shot timer — posts a notification when ms elapse
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klog_read = 32, // klog_read(offset, ptr, len) -> bytes copied: copy the kernel RAM log buffer out to a user buffer (for persisting the boot log to disk)
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wall_clock = 33, // wall_clock() -> Unix epoch seconds (UTC): the RTC wall-clock time, for filesystem timestamps (mtime). Monotonic time is `clock`.
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