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commit a9437241bef564b1dc68aa546b63b3c9074437a4
Author: Marc Schink <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Sep 1 11:04:36 2025 +0200

    README: Use Markdown extension
    
    Ensures proper rendering on GitHub [1] / GitLab, clarifies that Markdown
    syntax is expected from contributors, and enables editor syntax
    highlighting.
    
    [1] https://github.com/openocd-org/openocd
    
    Change-Id: Icaff52ed2bf7d6f32b5812b5aff1c081e8b7507a
    Signed-off-by: Marc Schink <[email protected]>

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 845543721d..2e7bdc5cce 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \
        BUGS \
        HACKING \
        NEWTAPS \
-       README.Windows \
-       README.macOS \
+       README.Windows.md \
+       README.macOS.md \
        $(EXTRA_DIST_NEWS) \
        Doxyfile.in \
        LICENSES/license-rules.txt \
diff --git a/README.Windows b/README.Windows.md
similarity index 97%
rename from README.Windows
rename to README.Windows.md
index 293eed975c..b0d4e085f7 100644
--- a/README.Windows
+++ b/README.Windows.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ You can build OpenOCD for Windows natively with either 
MinGW-w64/MSYS
 or Cygwin (plain MinGW might work with --disable-werror but is not
 recommended as it doesn't provide enough C99 compatibility).
 Alternatively, one can cross-compile it using MinGW-w64 on a *nix
-host. See README for the generic instructions.
+host. See README.md for the generic instructions.
 
 Also, the MSYS2 project provides both ready-made binaries and an easy
 way to self-compile from their software repository out of the box.
diff --git a/README.macOS b/README.macOS.md
similarity index 97%
rename from README.macOS
rename to README.macOS.md
index 91d5e9261b..cc1e1c7332 100644
--- a/README.macOS
+++ b/README.macOS.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ MacPorts' libraries, so run configure like this:
   LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include ./configure [options]
 
 
-See README for the generic building instructions.
+See README.md for the generic building instructions.
 
 If you're using a USB adapter and have a driver kext matched to it,
 you will need to unload it prior to running OpenOCD. E.g. with Apple
diff --git a/README b/README.md
similarity index 100%
rename from README
rename to README.md
diff --git a/doc/openocd.texi b/doc/openocd.texi
index 2199760e24..d90c8af592 100644
--- a/doc/openocd.texi
+++ b/doc/openocd.texi
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ needing a Git client:
 
 @uref{http://repo.or.cz/w/openocd.git}
 
-The @file{README} file contains the instructions for building the project
+The @file{README.md} file contains the instructions for building the project
 from the repository or a snapshot.
 
 Developers that want to contribute patches to the OpenOCD system are
diff --git a/tools/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/tools/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 89f0a21783..9232c83a37 100755
--- a/tools/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/tools/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1417,14 +1417,14 @@ sub top_of_kernel_tree {
        if (!$OpenOCD) {
        my @tree_check = (
                "COPYING", "CREDITS", "Kbuild", "MAINTAINERS", "Makefile",
-               "README", "Documentation", "arch", "include", "drivers",
+               "README.md", "Documentation", "arch", "include", "drivers",
                "fs", "init", "ipc", "kernel", "lib", "scripts",
        );
        } # !$OpenOCD
        # OpenOCD specific: Begin
        my @tree_check = (
                "AUTHORS", "BUGS", "COPYING", "HACKING", "Makefile.am",
-               "README", "contrib", "doc", "src", "tcl", "testing", "tools",
+               "README.md", "contrib", "doc", "src", "tcl", "testing", "tools",
        );
        # OpenOCD specific: End
 

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