diff --git a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
index ff0c29d..d1763f3 100644
--- a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
+++ b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/genericarm64.conf
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ MACHINE_FEATURES = "acpi alsa bluetooth efi keyboard pci qemu-usermode rtc scree
 
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "Image"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-yocto"
+# Update kernel to latest stable when using systemd based poky-altcfg distro
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto:poky-altcfg = ""
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-rt:poky-altcfg = ""
 
 # Install all the kernel modules into the rootfs
 MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += "kernel-modules"