With Bayes' rule, and s∈{±1} for x∈{0,1}, we find
P[s=+1|y]=p(y|s=+1)p(y)P[s=+1]
and channel output PDF
p(y|s) conditioned on the transmitted symbol
s we obtain
L(s|y)⏟a posteriori L-value=lnp(y|s=+1)P[s=+1]p(y|s=−1)P[s=−1]=lnP[s=+1]P[s=−1]⏟a priori L-value LA(s)+lnp(y|s=+1)p(y|s=−1)⏟channel L-value Lch(s|y)=LA(s)+Lch(s|y).
The channel L-value tells us what we learn about the transmitted symbol
s based on the channel observation.
For an AWGN channel with zero mean and variance σ2 (per real-/imag-component, i.e., per I-/Q-channel) the channel L-value computes as
Lch(s|y)=lnexp(−(y−1)22σ2)exp(−(y+1)22σ2)=2σ2y.