KIP-826 — Define platforms supported

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KIP-826 formally documents the set of operating systems, hardware architectures, and JVM versions that Apache Kafka officially supports and tests against. Without an explicit support matrix, users running Kafka on non-x86_64 platforms (e.g., aarch64, ppc64le) or with native dependencies like RocksDB and zstd have no authoritative guidance on whether their environment is supported.

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