Please do remember that Torvalds worked for Transmeta which created and designed vliw CPUs from scratch.
He's also really practical guy if you happen to remember about Minix micro-kernel VS monolithic Linux-kernel ;)
He's also really practical guy if you happen to remember about Minix micro-kernel VS monolithic Linux-kernel ;)
Anyway, there are a couple of efforts which include VLIW tech which are in currently in the development pipeline now. So maybe in the next few years we will see some interesting things with it.