diff --git a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
index 1cb5e46dcf..8c1b09fdd5 100644
--- a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
+++ b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ MACHINE_FEATURES = "acpi alsa bluetooth efi keyboard pci qemu-usermode rtc scree
 
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "Image"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-yocto"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "6.6%"
 
 # Install all the kernel modules into the rootfs
 MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += "kernel-modules"