23.3.4.11 .rodata Section

Standard read-only sections are not mapped in the linker script. A few special read-only sections are still mapped in the linker script, but most sections are unmapped, allowing them to be handled by the best fit allocator. This section is assigned to the program memory region (kseg0_program_mem).

.rodata   :
{
  *(.gnu.linkonce.r.*)
  *(.rodata1)
} > kseg0_program_mem