>> But when I use a 1.4-based kernel, I get "pckbdprobe: reset response
>> 0xfc" and the keyboard doesn't work.

> As you found, nothing which could explain this was changed in the
> keyboard or keyboard controller drivers.  I'd suspect a subtle timing
> related problem because the i386 DELAY() implementation was changed
> within the timeframe in question.  [...dev/isa/pckbc.c...KBD_DELAY.]

I changed KBD_DELAY from DELAY(8) to DELAY(32) and the problem went
away.  Many thanks for the tip!

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