Hi, We recently added ARM (aarch64) and PowerPC (ppc64le) support to the Apache Kafka CI. So now all builds are tested (and work!) on x86_64, aarch64 and ppc64le. Thanks again to the community members that donated the machines.
Since we test these platforms, should we consider them as officially supported? In our docs, we make statements about the Java versions we support. In the Hardware and OS section [0], we also have a few statements about the operating systems supported (which may not necessarily still be true as it mentions Solaris being tested), but we don't actually say anything about the hardware. Even if Kafka is a JVM based software, some of our dependencies like rocksdb, zstd, etc rely on native code so they may not work on all environments. Note that on aarch64 and ppc64le we currently we only run unit tests. We should also run integration tests. 0: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#hwandos Thanks, Mickael
