Architecture licensing

Licenses issued after the release of Linaro Forge Licence Server 6.1 specify the compute node architectures that they may be used with. Licences issued prior to this release will enable the x86_64 architecture by default. Existing users for other architectures will be supplied with new licenses that will enable their architectures.

If there is any problem contact Forge Support.

Use multiple architecture licenses

If you are using multiple license files to specify multiple architectures, we recommend that you follow these steps.

Procedure

  1. Ensure that the default licenses directory is empty.

  2. Create a directory for each architecture.

  3. To target a specific architecture, set FORGE_LICENSE_DIR to the relevant directory. Alternatively, set FORGE_LICENSE_FILE to specify the license file.

Multiple architectures example

On a site that targets two architectures, x86_64 and AArch64, create a directory for each architecture, and name them licenses_x86_64 and licenses_aarch64. Then, to target the architectures, set the license directories as follows:

To target AArch64:

export FORGE_LICENSE_DIR=/path/to/licenses/licenses_aarch64

To target x86_64:

export FORGE_LICENSE_DIR=/path/to/licenses/licenses_x86_64