diff --git a/conf/ros-distro/include/ubuntu-bionic/ros-distro-platform-preferred-versions.inc b/conf/ros-distro/include/ubuntu-bionic/ros-distro-platform-preferred-versions.inc
index ada9b7c..4cd0b9b 100644
--- a/conf/ros-distro/include/ubuntu-bionic/ros-distro-platform-preferred-versions.inc
+++ b/conf/ros-distro/include/ubuntu-bionic/ros-distro-platform-preferred-versions.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 # Set PREFERRED_VERSION_<PN> here for platform packages for which the layers provide multiple versions.
 
 PREFERRED_VERSION_cppunit ?= "1.14.0"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-raspberrypi ?= "4.4%"
+# Ubuntu bionic has v4.15, but meta-raspberrypi thud only provides v4.9 and v4.14 => select the latter as the former is more
+# likely to be missing something that other components expect to be present.
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-raspberrypi ?= "4.14%"
 # Match kernel version of raspberrypi.
 PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "4.4%"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_opencv ?= "3.2%"