diff --git a/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti-staging-rt_6.1.bb b/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti-staging-rt_6.1.bb
index e78707f4..b7426aff 100644
--- a/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti-staging-rt_6.1.bb
+++ b/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti-staging-rt_6.1.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 require linux-ti-staging_6.1.bb
 
+KERNEL_LOCALVERSION:append = "-rt"
+
 # Look in the generic major.minor directory for files
 # This will have priority over generic non-rt path
 FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}-6.1:"
diff --git a/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/setup-defconfig.inc b/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/setup-defconfig.inc
index df7d9ac8..8da90c79 100644
--- a/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/setup-defconfig.inc
+++ b/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/setup-defconfig.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-# KERNEL_LOCALVERSION can be set to add a tag to the end of the
-# kernel version string.  such as the commit id
-KERNEL_LOCALVERSION = "-g${@d.getVar('SRCPV', True).replace('AUTOINC+','')[:10]}"
+KERNEL_LOCALVERSION = "-ti"
 
 # Check the defconfig file and see if it points to an in kernel
 # defconfig that should be used, or if it is a complete config file
@@ -13,8 +11,10 @@ do_configure() {
     # tree config
     cp ${WORKDIR}/defconfig ${B}/.config
 
-    echo ${KERNEL_LOCALVERSION} > ${B}/.scmversion
-    echo ${KERNEL_LOCALVERSION} > ${S}/.scmversion
+    scm_version=$(printf '%s%s' -g $(git -C ${S} rev-parse --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null | cut -c1-12))
+
+    echo ${scm_version} > ${B}/.scmversion
+    echo ${scm_version} > ${S}/.scmversion
 
     # Zero, when using "tisdk" configs, pass control to defconfig_builder
     config=`cat ${B}/.config | grep use-tisdk-config | cut -d= -f2`