diff --git a/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst b/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst
index 6b02bd829a..191d1a8c93 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ the following architecture extensions:
 - FEAT_SME_FA64 (Full A64 instruction set in Streaming SVE mode)
 - FEAT_SME_F16F16 (Non-widening half-precision FP16 arithmetic for SME2)
 - FEAT_SME_F64F64 (Double-precision floating-point outer product instructions)
+- FEAT_SME_F8F16 (SME2 ZA-targeting FP8 multiply-accumulate, dot product, and outer product to half-precision instructions)
 - FEAT_SME_F8F32 (SME2 ZA-targeting FP8 multiply-accumulate, dot product, and outer product to single-precision instructions)
 - FEAT_SME_I16I64 (16-bit to 64-bit integer widening outer product instructions)
 - FEAT_SME_LUTv2 (Lookup table instructions with 4-bit indices and 8-bit elements)
diff --git a/linux-user/aarch64/elfload.c b/linux-user/aarch64/elfload.c
index 20b9838520..42aeb29306 100644
--- a/linux-user/aarch64/elfload.c
+++ b/linux-user/aarch64/elfload.c
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ abi_ulong get_elf_hwcap2(CPUState *cs)
     GET_FEATURE_ID(aa64_ssve_f8dp4, ARM_HWCAP2_A64_SME_SF8DP4);
     GET_FEATURE_ID(aa64_ssve_f8dp2, ARM_HWCAP2_A64_SME_SF8DP2);
     GET_FEATURE_ID(aa64_sme_f8f32, ARM_HWCAP2_A64_SME_F8F32);
+    GET_FEATURE_ID(aa64_sme_f8f16, ARM_HWCAP2_A64_SME_F8F16);
 
     return hwcaps;
 }
diff --git a/target/arm/tcg/cpu64.c b/target/arm/tcg/cpu64.c
index a5734446dd..ae3952a1ed 100644
--- a/target/arm/tcg/cpu64.c
+++ b/target/arm/tcg/cpu64.c
@@ -1393,6 +1393,7 @@ void aarch64_max_tcg_initfn(Object *obj)
     t = FIELD_DP64(t, ID_AA64SMFR0, F16F32, 1);   /* FEAT_SME */
     t = FIELD_DP64(t, ID_AA64SMFR0, I8I32, 0xf);  /* FEAT_SME */
     t = FIELD_DP64(t, ID_AA64SMFR0, F8F32, 1);    /* FEAT_SME_F8F32 */
+    t = FIELD_DP64(t, ID_AA64SMFR0, F8F16, 1);    /* FEAT_SME_F8F16 */
     t = FIELD_DP64(t, ID_AA64SMFR0, F16F16, 1);   /* FEAT_SME_F16F16 */
     t = FIELD_DP64(t, ID_AA64SMFR0, B16B16, 1);   /* FEAT_SME_B16B16 */
     t = FIELD_DP64(t, ID_AA64SMFR0, I16I32, 5);   /* FEAT_SME2 */