Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] systemd: Stop supporting sysvinit compatibility

Mathieu Dubois-Briand
2026-02-15T16:32:16Z

On Fri Feb 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM CET, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Systemd has worked with sysvinit compatibility but upstream plans to remove
> this and hence we will no longer be able to support it. We need to remove this
> before the LTS since the support will certainly not be there for the lifetime
> of the LTS.
>
> This patch disables that usage mode and removes some of the compatibility logic.
> There is more that can be removed, this is meant just to signal to people it is
> no longer supported and start that process. Further cleanup can be made over time
> in later commits.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---

Hi Richard,

I suspect we also want to remove the "Systemd with sysvinit compat" and
"Sysvinit with systemd" steps from qa-extras2:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/26/builds/3165
https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-autobuilder-helper/tree/config.json#n1562

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering