Hpet IOApic Routing

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Summary of this Pull Request (PR)

This PR contains Cathal's work from Spring 2026, working on IOAPIC routing using the HPET.

Intent for your PR

Choose one (Mandatory):

• This PR is for a code-review and is intended to get feedback, but not to be pulled yet.
• This PR is mature, and ready to be integrated into the repo.

Reviewers (Mandatory):

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Code Quality

As part of this pull request, I've considered the following:

Style:

• Comments adhere to the Style Guide (SG)
• Spacing adhere's to the SG
• Naming adhere's to the SG
• All other aspects of the SG are adhered to, or exceptions are justified in this pull request
• I have run the auto formatter on my code before submitting this PR (see doc/auto_formatter.md for instructions)

Code Craftsmanship:

• I've made an attempt to remove all redundant code
• I've considered ways in which my changes might impact existing code, and cleaned it up
• I've formatted the code in an effort to make it easier to read (proper error handling, function use, etc...)
• I've commented appropriately where code is tricky
• I agree that there is no "throw-away" code, and that code in this PR is of high quality

Testing

I've tested the code using the following test programs (provide list here):

• micro_booter
• unit_pingpong
• unit_schedtests
• ...(add others here)