I think that I largely agree with you. Certainly a small number of determined and talented people can do a lot and can often move a lot faster than larger teams

I think that I largely agree with you. Certainly a small number of determined and talented people can do a lot and can often move a lot faster than larger teams. I just wanted to temper the expectations that we'll get fully working graphics drivers in a year or two :) Indeed RADV is a good comparison, though it bears notice that the open-source existing AMD drivers probably also helped a fair bit! That being said, there seems to be 3 people but maybe only 2, and the RADV project has been going on for around three years now, though there are a lot of contributions from outside of Valve. RADV compiles Vulkan to NIR, so there is also the backend that compiles NIR to assembly that needs to be performant. Though perhaps the Asahi Linux team can leverage a lot of work done by RADV for their platform, which could speed things up a lot!