diff --git a/board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches/at91bootstrap3/at91bootstrap3.hash b/board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches/at91bootstrap3/at91bootstrap3.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..06a63d449d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches/at91bootstrap3/at91bootstrap3.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Locally calculated
+sha256  cdc04cca9e811043efdea43ad203d70d897e23a8bd46f01896ba45c8df50f6ec  at91bootstrap3-v3.10.3-br1.tar.gz
diff --git a/board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash b/board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..5808d92afe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../linux/linux.hash
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches/linux/linux.hash b/board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches/linux/linux.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6dbbeca57f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches/linux/linux.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Locally calculated
+sha256  1fd7ec8c3d9c4e4b3a41d11e2c6d151e5fbf875dd08b3577f73afd6ee6674605  linux-6.6.12.tar.xz
diff --git a/configs/acmesystems_acqua_a5_256mb_defconfig b/configs/acmesystems_acqua_a5_256mb_defconfig
index ef57734194..359b356cb4 100644
--- a/configs/acmesystems_acqua_a5_256mb_defconfig
+++ b/configs/acmesystems_acqua_a5_256mb_defconfig
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ BR2_cortex_a5=y
 BR2_ARM_ENABLE_VFP=y
 BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_THUMB2=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_6_6=y
+BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR="board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches"
+BR2_DOWNLOAD_FORCE_CHECK_HASHES=y
 BR2_SYSTEM_DHCP="eth0"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="support/scripts/genimage.sh"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_SCRIPT_ARGS="-c board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/genimage.cfg"
diff --git a/configs/acmesystems_acqua_a5_512mb_defconfig b/configs/acmesystems_acqua_a5_512mb_defconfig
index a69e2a2251..194de0b530 100644
--- a/configs/acmesystems_acqua_a5_512mb_defconfig
+++ b/configs/acmesystems_acqua_a5_512mb_defconfig
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ BR2_cortex_a5=y
 BR2_ARM_ENABLE_VFP=y
 BR2_ARM_INSTRUCTIONS_THUMB2=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_6_6=y
+BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR="board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/patches"
+BR2_DOWNLOAD_FORCE_CHECK_HASHES=y
 BR2_SYSTEM_DHCP="eth0"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="support/scripts/genimage.sh"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_SCRIPT_ARGS="-c board/acmesystems/acqua-a5/genimage.cfg"