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@@ -369,6 +369,16 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:
- HCR_EL2.ATA (bit 56) must be initialised to 0b1.
+ For CPUs with the Scalable Matrix Extension version 2 (FEAT_SME2):
+
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ - SMCR_EL3.EZT0 (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:
+
+ - SMCR_EL2.EZT0 (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected
timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs. All CPUs must
enter the kernel in the same exception level. Where the values documented