Hello!
The following patch introduces a kconfig option to select between outputing ACS characters or their ASCII fallback approximations on the serial console. The default is to use ACS, i.e. the current bahaviour in svn HEAD.
The reason for introducing this choice is twofold: a) some terminals may not display ACS correctly (the current implementation is geared towards xterm/vt100 like terminals), and b) many (most?) terminal emulators will not let you cut and paste the ACS charcters in a meaningful way. Consequently, it is advantageous to offer the possibility of using ASCII fallbacks for all ACS characters.
Build and run tested under qemu with coreinfo+coreboot-v3.
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