JEP proposed to target JDK 24: 501: Deprecate the 32-bit x86 Port for Removal

[Mark Reinhold]

The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 24:

  501: Deprecate the 32-bit x86 Port for Removal
       https://openjdk.org/jeps/501

  Summary: Deprecate the 32-bit x86 port, with the intent to remove it
  in a future release.  This will thereby deprecate the Linux 32-bit x86
  port, which is the only 32-bit x86 port remaining in the JDK.  It will
  also, effectively, deprecate any remaining downstream 32-bit x86 ports.
  After the 32-bit x86 port is removed, the architecture-agnostic
  Zero port will be the only way to run Java programs on 32-bit x86
  processors.

Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
are raised by 20:00 UTC on Monday, 25 November, or if they’re raised
and then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal
[2] I’ll target this JEP to JDK 24.

- Mark


[1] https://openjdk.org/census#jdk
[2] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html