up to how many cores

["Robert Cates" <robert@kormar.net>]

Hi all,

just a general question - I'm interested in getting a motherboard that
supports 4 of the new AMD Quad Core CPUs.  That would be effectively 16
CPUs.  My question is, with the 2.6.18-5-686 kernel from etch, will the
SMP kernel work with all 16 cores?  What is actually the current limit of
cores (CPUs) that the 2.6.18 (or newer) kernel will support?

Thanks much,
Robert