Merge tag 'v2025.07-rc5' into next

Prepare v2025.07-rc5

With this merge, tighten up the LTO_FLAGS removal we added to not
trigger on ARMv7 (which is Thumb-2 and should be fine).

diff --cc Makefile
Simple merge

diff --cc common/Makefile
index 35991562a12b5c020ab17605c504592e37437652,e589f3072621803a77b27fdeae5cb2627401823b..d62ea34599edfe07b29e819160fbb7e65aae1780
--- 1/common/Makefile
--- 2/common/Makefile
+++ b/common/Makefile
@@@ -19,6 -19,10 +19,12 @@@ obj-y += version.
  # # boards
  obj-y += board_f.o
  obj-y += board_r.o
+ ifdef CONFIG_$(PHASE_)SYS_THUMB_BUILD
++ifneq ($(CONFIG_SYS_ARM_ARCH),7)
+ CFLAGS_REMOVE_board_f.o := $(LTO_CFLAGS)
+ CFLAGS_REMOVE_board_r.o := $(LTO_CFLAGS)
+ endif
++endif
  obj-$(CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO) += board_info.o
  obj-$(CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE) += board_info.o
  

diff --cc configs/e850-96_defconfig
Simple merge

diff --cc configs/r8a779g0_whitehawk_defconfig
Simple merge

diff --cc include/image.h
Simple merge