diff --git a/board/ti/am62x-sk/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash b/board/ti/am62x-sk/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..5808d92afe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/ti/am62x-sk/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../linux/linux.hash
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/board/ti/am62x-sk/patches/linux/linux.hash b/board/ti/am62x-sk/patches/linux/linux.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cedae67f33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/ti/am62x-sk/patches/linux/linux.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Locally calculated
+sha256  4e43d8c5fba14f7c82597838011648056487b7550fd83276ad534559e8499b1d  linux-6.6.18.tar.xz
diff --git a/configs/ti_am62x_sk_defconfig b/configs/ti_am62x_sk_defconfig
index 7a411ed423..d4b19e5039 100644
--- a/configs/ti_am62x_sk_defconfig
+++ b/configs/ti_am62x_sk_defconfig
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 BR2_aarch64=y
-BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_6_4=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_6_6=y
 BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR="board/ti/am62x-sk/patches"
+BR2_DOWNLOAD_FORCE_CHECK_HASHES=y
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT="board/ti/am62x-sk/post-build.sh"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT_ARGS="-c ttyS2,115200n8 -d k3-am625-sk.dtb -r /dev/mmcblk1p2 -x earlycon=ns16550a,mmio32,0x02800000"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="support/scripts/genimage.sh"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT_ARGS="-c board/ti/am62x-sk/genimage.cfg"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
-BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="6.4.16"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="6.6.18"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_ARCH_DEFAULT_CONFIG=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="ti/k3-am625-sk"