diff --git a/check-fitimage-metadata.sh b/check-fitimage-metadata.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+ITS_FILE="qcom-fitimage.its"
+META_FILE="qcom-metadata.dts"
+
+if [[ ! -f "$ITS_FILE" ]]; then
+    echo "fail FILE_NOT_FOUND qcom-fitimage.its" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ ! -f "$META_FILE" ]]; then
+    echo "fail FILE_NOT_FOUND qcom-metadata.dts" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+tmpdir="$(mktemp -d)"
+trap 'rm -rf "$tmpdir"' EXIT
+
+missing_any=0
+
+###############################################################################
+# 1. Collect all configuration subnodes and their compatible strings
+###############################################################################
+awk -v out="$tmpdir/config_compat.txt" '
+    BEGIN {
+        in_configs = 0
+        in_node = 0
+        node_name = ""
+    }
+
+    /configurations[[:space:]]*\{/ {
+        in_configs = 1
+        next
+    }
+
+    in_configs && /^\}/ {
+        in_configs = 0
+        next
+    }
+
+    # Match a configuration subnode: "<cfg_name> {"
+    in_configs && /^[[:space:]]*[^[:space:]]+[[:space:]]*\{/ {
+        node_name = $1
+        sub(/:$/, "", node_name)
+        in_node = 1
+        next
+    }
+
+    in_node && /^[[:space:]]*};/ {
+        in_node = 0
+        node_name = ""
+        next
+    }
+
+    # Extract compatible = "<string>";
+    in_node && /compatible[[:space:]]*=/ {
+        line = $0
+        if (match(line, /"[^"]*"/)) {
+            compat = substr(line, RSTART+1, RLENGTH-2)
+            print node_name, compat >> out
+        }
+    }
+' "$ITS_FILE"
+
+if [[ ! -s "$tmpdir/config_compat.txt" ]]; then
+    echo "fail NO_CONFIG_COMPAT qcom-fitimage.its"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+###############################################################################
+# 2. Collect only node (subnode) names from qcom-metadata.dts
+#    - Ignore labels
+#    - Take the last identifier before "{"
+###############################################################################
+
+meta_nodes="$tmpdir/meta_nodes.txt"
+
+awk '
+    # Any node definition line ending with "{"
+    /^[[:space:]]*[^&].*\{/ {
+        line = $0
+
+        # Remove everything from "{" onward
+        sub(/\{.*/, "", line)
+
+        # Trim leading/trailing whitespace
+        sub(/^[[:space:]]+/, "", line)
+        sub(/[[:space:]]+$/, "", line)
+
+        # Split on whitespace; last field is the node name (after optional label:)
+        n = split(line, a, /[[:space:]]+/)
+        if (n < 1)
+            next
+
+        node = a[n]
+
+        # Strip trailing ":" if any (defensive, though labels should be before node)
+        sub(/:$/, "", node)
+
+        if (node != "") {
+            print node
+        }
+    }
+' "$META_FILE" | sort -u > "$meta_nodes"
+
+###############################################################################
+# 3. For each configuration, check substrings against node names only
+###############################################################################
+
+while read -r cfg compat; do
+    compat_no_prefix="${compat#qcom,}"
+    IFS='-' read -r -a parts <<< "$compat_no_prefix"
+
+    for part in "${parts[@]}"; do
+        [[ -z "$part" ]] && continue
+
+        if ! grep -qx "$part" "$meta_nodes"; then
+            echo "fail ${part} ${cfg}"
+            missing_any=1
+        fi
+    done
+done < "$tmpdir/config_compat.txt"
+
+if [[ "$missing_any" -ne 0 ]]; then
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+echo "success"