By default, the Yocto Project uses
SysVinit
as the initialization manager.
However, support also exists for systemd
,
which is a full replacement for init
with
parallel starting of services, reduced shell overhead and other
features that are used by many distributions.
If you want to use sysvinit
, you do
not have to do anything.
But, if you want to use systemd
, you must
take some steps as described in the following sections.