Hi guys,
     I have prepared a branch on poky-contrib (rmoisan/systemd) where I 
pulled systemd from meta-openembedded. The goal is to merge this into 
oe-core, so please take a look and give me your feedback on stuff that 
needs work or things that I might have done wrong, so that I can prepare 
it for merge.
     At this point core-image-minimal and core-image-sato both boot fine 
with systemd. There still are a few warnings but not critical(at 
runtime), at least in my opinion, you may want to take a look at those too.
     You can activate systemd by *DISTRO_FEATURES_INITMAN = "systemd"*

Radu