diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/CMakeLists.txt b/components/bootloader/subproject/CMakeLists.txt
index 46662fd0e3..5ff5bddc97 100644
--- a/components/bootloader/subproject/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/components/bootloader/subproject/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ idf_build_set_property(__COMPONENT_REQUIRES_COMMON "${common_req}")
 idf_build_set_property(__OUTPUT_SDKCONFIG 0)
 # Define a property for the default linker script
 set(LD_DEFAULT_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/main/ld/${IDF_TARGET}")
-idf_build_set_property(BOOTLOADER_LINKER_SCRIPT "${LD_DEFAULT_PATH}/bootloader.rom.ld" APPEND)
 project(bootloader)
 if(CONFIG_ESP32P4_REV_MIN_300)
     target_linker_script("__idf_main" INTERFACE "${LD_DEFAULT_PATH}/bootloader.rev3.ld.in")
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c2/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c2/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index e8af7ec5a6..0000000000
--- a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c2/bootloader.rom.ld
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021-2022 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-/* No definition for ESP32-C2 target */
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c3/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c3/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index 54f8c54128..0000000000
--- a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c3/bootloader.rom.ld
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/* No definition for ESP32-C3 target */
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c5/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c5/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index 0bf140454f..0000000000
--- a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c5/bootloader.rom.ld
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-/* No definition for ESP32-C5 target */
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c6/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c6/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index 239eb438b4..0000000000
--- a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c6/bootloader.rom.ld
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-/* No definition for ESP32-C6 target */
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c61/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c61/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index 2005feaed3..0000000000
--- a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32c61/bootloader.rom.ld
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-/* No definition for ESP32-C61 target */
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32h2/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32h2/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index c6825c7ee4..0000000000
--- a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32h2/bootloader.rom.ld
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-/* No definition for ESP32-H2 target */
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32h21/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32h21/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index 26b801f3f7..0000000000
--- a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32h21/bootloader.rom.ld
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-/* No definition for ESP32-H21 target */
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32h4/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32h4/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index d8fa2c8a50..0000000000
--- a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32h4/bootloader.rom.ld
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-/* No definition for ESP32-H4 target */
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32p4/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32p4/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index 521eafee5c..0000000000
--- a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32p4/bootloader.rom.ld
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-/* No definition for ESP32-P4 target */
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32s2/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32s2/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32s3/bootloader.rom.ld b/components/bootloader/subproject/main/ld/esp32s3/bootloader.rom.ld
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/components/esp_hal_wdt/CMakeLists.txt b/components/esp_hal_wdt/CMakeLists.txt
index 19d0d05a4f..4df47401ca 100644
--- a/components/esp_hal_wdt/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/components/esp_hal_wdt/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -24,5 +24,14 @@ endif()
 
 idf_component_register(SRCS ${srcs}
                        INCLUDE_DIRS ${public_include}
-                       REQUIRES soc hal esp_hal_timg
+                       REQUIRES soc hal esp_rom esp_hal_timg
                        LDFRAGMENTS linker.lf)
+
+# Link the ROM WDT HAL implementation linker script if selected
+if(CONFIG_HAL_WDT_USE_ROM_IMPL)
+    if(CONFIG_IDF_TARGET_ESP32H4 AND NOT CONFIG_ESP32H4_SELECTS_REV_MP) # TODO: ESP32H4 IDF-13835
+        target_linker_script(${COMPONENT_LIB} INTERFACE "${target}/rom.beta5.wdt.ld")
+    else()
+        target_linker_script(${COMPONENT_LIB} INTERFACE "${target}/rom.wdt.ld")
+    endif()
+endif()
diff --git a/components/esp_hal_wdt/Kconfig.hal_wdt b/components/esp_hal_wdt/Kconfig.hal_wdt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..856b9c6581
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/esp_hal_wdt/Kconfig.hal_wdt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+config HAL_WDT_USE_ROM_IMPL
+    bool "Use ROM implementation of WDT HAL driver"
+    depends on ESP_ROM_HAS_HAL_WDT
+    default y
+    help
+        Enable this flag to use HAL functions from ROM instead of ESP-IDF.
+
+        If keeping this as "n" in your project, you will have less free IRAM.
+        If making this as "y" in your project, you will increase free IRAM,
+        but you will lose the possibility to debug this module, and some new
+        features will be added and bugs will be fixed in the IDF source
+        but cannot be synced to ROM.
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/esp32c2/ld/esp32c2.rom.wdt.ld b/components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32c2/rom.wdt.ld
similarity index 100%
rename from components/esp_rom/esp32c2/ld/esp32c2.rom.wdt.ld
rename to components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32c2/rom.wdt.ld
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/esp32c5/ld/esp32c5.rom.wdt.ld b/components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32c5/rom.wdt.ld
similarity index 100%
rename from components/esp_rom/esp32c5/ld/esp32c5.rom.wdt.ld
rename to components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32c5/rom.wdt.ld
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/esp32c6/ld/esp32c6.rom.wdt.ld b/components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32c6/rom.wdt.ld
similarity index 100%
rename from components/esp_rom/esp32c6/ld/esp32c6.rom.wdt.ld
rename to components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32c6/rom.wdt.ld
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/esp32c61/ld/esp32c61.rom.wdt.ld b/components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32c61/rom.wdt.ld
similarity index 100%
rename from components/esp_rom/esp32c61/ld/esp32c61.rom.wdt.ld
rename to components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32c61/rom.wdt.ld
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/esp32h2/ld/esp32h2.rom.wdt.ld b/components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32h2/rom.wdt.ld
similarity index 100%
rename from components/esp_rom/esp32h2/ld/esp32h2.rom.wdt.ld
rename to components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32h2/rom.wdt.ld
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/esp32h21/ld/esp32h21.rom.wdt.ld b/components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32h21/rom.wdt.ld
similarity index 100%
rename from components/esp_rom/esp32h21/ld/esp32h21.rom.wdt.ld
rename to components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32h21/rom.wdt.ld
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/esp32h4/ld/esp32h4.rom.beta5.wdt.ld b/components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32h4/rom.beta5.wdt.ld
similarity index 100%
rename from components/esp_rom/esp32h4/ld/esp32h4.rom.beta5.wdt.ld
rename to components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32h4/rom.beta5.wdt.ld
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/esp32h4/ld/esp32h4.rom.wdt.ld b/components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32h4/rom.wdt.ld
similarity index 100%
rename from components/esp_rom/esp32h4/ld/esp32h4.rom.wdt.ld
rename to components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32h4/rom.wdt.ld
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/esp32p4/ld/esp32p4.rom.wdt.ld b/components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32p4/rom.wdt.ld
similarity index 100%
rename from components/esp_rom/esp32p4/ld/esp32p4.rom.wdt.ld
rename to components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32p4/rom.wdt.ld
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/esp32s3/ld/esp32s3.rom.wdt.ld b/components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32s3/rom.wdt.ld
similarity index 100%
rename from components/esp_rom/esp32s3/ld/esp32s3.rom.wdt.ld
rename to components/esp_hal_wdt/esp32s3/rom.wdt.ld
diff --git a/components/esp_rom/CMakeLists.txt b/components/esp_rom/CMakeLists.txt
index e5d65aeb85..8246bbd351 100644
--- a/components/esp_rom/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/components/esp_rom/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -131,14 +131,6 @@ endif()
 
 # Common API which is linked both for bootloader and app builds
 
-if(CONFIG_HAL_WDT_USE_ROM_IMPL)
-    if(CONFIG_IDF_TARGET_ESP32H4 AND NOT CONFIG_ESP32H4_SELECTS_REV_MP) # TODO: ESP32H4 IDF-13835
-        rom_linker_script("beta5.wdt")
-    else()
-        rom_linker_script("wdt")
-    endif()
-endif()
-
 if(CONFIG_HAL_SYSTIMER_USE_ROM_IMPL)
     if(CONFIG_IDF_TARGET_ESP32H4 AND NOT CONFIG_ESP32H4_SELECTS_REV_MP) # TODO: ESP32H4 IDF-13835
         rom_linker_script("beta5.systimer")
diff --git a/components/hal/Kconfig b/components/hal/Kconfig
index 671e27fbd4..abb479c358 100644
--- a/components/hal/Kconfig
+++ b/components/hal/Kconfig
@@ -78,18 +78,7 @@ menu "Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and Low Level (LL)"
             features will be added and bugs will be fixed in the IDF source
             but cannot be synced to ROM.
 
-    config HAL_WDT_USE_ROM_IMPL
-        bool "Use ROM implementation of WDT HAL driver"
-        depends on ESP_ROM_HAS_HAL_WDT
-        default y
-        help
-            Enable this flag to use HAL functions from ROM instead of ESP-IDF.
-
-            If keeping this as "n" in your project, you will have less free IRAM.
-            If making this as "y" in your project, you will increase free IRAM,
-            but you will lose the possibility to debug this module, and some new
-            features will be added and bugs will be fixed in the IDF source
-            but cannot be synced to ROM.
+    orsource "../esp_hal_wdt/Kconfig.hal_wdt"
 
     config HAL_GPIO_USE_ROM_IMPL
         bool "Use ROM implementation of GPIO HAL driver"