seL4 / sel4-tutorials

Tutorials for working with seL4 and/or CAmkES.

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explain seL4 "bit" sizes more prominently

lsf37 opened this issue · comments

2 queries for the untyped tutorial makes this a frequently asked question (see e.g. #71 ).

We should explain more prominently that those sizes are the exponent n in 2^n bytes. Ideally in the tutorial solution as a comment and in the text.

  • add solution comment
  • check if untyped is the right tutorial or if this should come earlier and have a reference in untyped
  • add text to tutorial itself
  • check if this is explained in the reference manual

The explanation in the manual is mostly right, but could be a bit clearer, it's phrased in terms of log_2, which is correct but terse.