diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
index 005b688..0d94637 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # provide this .inc to set specific revisions
 include recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev-revisions.inc
 
-KBRANCH = "standard/base"
+KBRANCH = "v5.16/standard/base"
 KMETA = "kernel-meta"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-dev.git;branch=${KBRANCH};name=machine \
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 SRCREV_machine ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel", "linux-yocto-dev", "${AUTOREV}", "29594404d7fe73cd80eaa4ee8c43dcc53970c60e", d)}'
 SRCREV_meta ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel", "linux-yocto-dev", "${AUTOREV}", "29594404d7fe73cd80eaa4ee8c43dcc53970c60e", d)}'
 
-LINUX_VERSION ?= "5.15+"
+LINUX_VERSION ?= "5.16+"
 LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-yoctodev-${LINUX_KERNEL_TYPE}"
 PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
 
@@ -40,6 +40,16 @@
 DEPENDS += "openssl-native util-linux-native"
 DEPENDS += "gmp-native libmpc-native"
 
+# yaml and dtschema are required for 5.16+ device tree validation, libyaml is checked
+# via pkgconfig, so must always be present, but we can wrap the others to make them
+# conditional
+DEPENDS += "libyaml-native"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
+PACKAGECONFIG[dt-validation] = ",,python3-dtschema-native"
+# we need the wrappers if validation isn't in the packageconfig
+DEPENDS += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'dt-validation', '', 'python3-dtschema-wrapper-native', d)}"
+
 COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(qemuarm|qemux86|qemuppc|qemumips|qemumips64|qemux86-64|qemuriscv64)"
 
 KERNEL_DEVICETREE:qemuarmv5 = "versatile-pb.dtb"