no joy when doing UEFI PXE boot

hi,

after someone brought it up on IRC, i recently revisited UEFI PXE
booting OpenBSD. i've only tested amd64 BOOTX64.EFI here, but i've
tried a few scenarios and they all pretty much result in the same
mystifying issue: BOOTX64.EFI loads and the machine immediately
resets.

test scenarios are mostly under OVMF in QEMU, but i also tried my
thinkpad A485 also with no joy.

i've tried multiple versions of QEMU (10.0.2, 10.0.8, 10.2.0),
EDK2/OVMF, and also tried each BOOTX64.EFI from OpenBSD 7.2 thru 7.8,
and BOOTX64.EFI from snapshots dated 04-Apr-2026. all have the same
results, the vm just resets and boots the OVMF firmware again.

on the other hand, if i instead boot ipxe.efi built from
https://ipxe.org/download#uefi, it loads fine. if i try "chain
BOOTX64.EFI" from iPXE, it will chain and get me to a boot prompt.
however, this has the unfortunate result that BOOTX64.EFI can't
actually load anything else like bsd.rd - in this state the tftp
protocol seems missing.

before i go debugging further, i wanted to write and see if anyone
knows if i did something wrong - has anyone had UEFI PXE boot working
recently?

thanks,
nick

Re: ncurses in base

I see, thank you both.

> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2026 at 5:33 AM
> From: "Crystal Kolipe" <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com>
> To: "Stuart Henderson" <stu.lists@spacehopper.org>
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: ncurses in base
>
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2026 at 09:22:38AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2026-04-03, fro@disciples.com <fro@disciples.com> wrote:
> > > I know ncurses in base was updated to 6.4 in 2023. What are the chances of getting it updated to 6.6 in the near future?
> >
> > _Near_ future? None, because we're in the run-up to release.
>
> Also note that the _last_ ncurses update wasn't sufficiently tested before
> commit, and subtle breakage crept into the subsequent release as a result.
>
> So definitely not in the near future.
>
>