Android Things Image on CM3 - android

I am trying to get a Android Things Image to boot on the Compute Module 3.
I have gone through several trial and error to try and get a working image. Currently I sit in the Kernel after getting through the DTB problem I was originally facing.
I use dd to flash the image through RPIBOOT, I validate the pi fully works with Raspian.
This is what I see in the serial console:
MMC: mmc#7e300000: 0
reading uboot.env
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: Net Initialization Skipped
No ethernet found.
ANDROID: Attempting slot b, tries remaining 6
ANDROID: Booting slot: b
Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC
ANDROID: reboot reason: "(none)"
** Invalid Android Image header **
Android boot failed, error -1.
resetting ...
U-�MMC: mmc#7e300000: 0
reading uboot.env
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: Net Initialization Skipped
No ethernet found.
ANDROID: Attempting slot a, tries remaining 5
ANDROID: Booting slot: a
72 bytes read in 31 ms (2 KiB/s)
ANDROID: reboot reason: "(none)"
Booting kernel at 0x1000000 with fdt at 2efe8600...
## Booting Android Image at 0x01000000 ...
Kernel load addr 0x01000800 size 8385 KiB
Kernel command line: buildvariant=userdebug
RAM disk load addr 0x11000000 size 4947 KiB
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 2efe8600
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x2efe8600
XIP Kernel Image ... OK
Loading Ramdisk to 2cb2b000, end 2cfffb11 ... OK
reserving fdt memory region: addr=0 size=1000
reserving fdt memory region: addr=2efe8600 size=ba00
Loading Device Tree to 2dff1000, end 2dfff9ff ... OK
Starting kernel ...
Note The file system can't be mounted:
ANDROID: Attempting slot b, tries remaining 6
ANDROID: Booting slot: b
Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
It will sit there forever. I have a feeling it is still something is wrongs with the Device Tree Blob that got me here. I also know the image is okay because I can boot it on a PI 3 B
I have tried both a CM3L and CM.
Both do the same thing and respond the same to the changes so I'm fairly confident that it is not a eMMC vs SD issue.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how I could debug this? Or even better a resource I can utilize to find the Android Things Kernel code for PI?

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