system_timer.h: Change "now" uptime API to be simpler for drivers
The current z_clock_uptime() call (recently renamed from
_get_elapsed_program_time) requires the driver to track a full 64 bit
uptime value in ticks, which is entirely separate from the one the
kernel is already keeping.
Don't do that. Just ask the drivers to track uptime since the last
call to z_clock_announce(), since that is going to map better to
built-in hardware capability.
Obviously existing drivers already have this feature, so they're
actually getting slightly larger in order to implement the new API in
terms of the old one. But future drivers will thank us.
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
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