DynAMOS is developed in C and assembly using the GNU toolchain, currently for the i386 architecture for Linux kernels 2.2-2.6. The mechanisms it employs can also be generally applied to fixed instruction-length architectures. It has been designed with portability in mind and can be enhanced with support for other commodity operating systems besides Linux, such as FreeBSD, Solaris, MacOS and AIX.
The system consists of a kernel module providing the dynamic updating framework and a userspace collection of tools that can build, apply and manage dynamic kernel updates using the framework.