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