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You could make it about equivalent to the protections afforded by the typical BIOS password, i.e. the attacker must first disassemble your laptop to reflash the spi chip or pull the hard drive. A
grub.cfglike so would do, assuming everything in encrypted partitions:Assuming you boot directly to GRUB or locked out the SeaBIOS boot device selector, then GRUB will only ever look for a boot device matching your disk's UUID; attempting to do anything else aside from entering the LUKS passphrase will prompt for the GRUB password. You'd still have your own recovery path by pressing Esc, entering your GRUB password, and dropping to the GRUB shell. Bonus points for patching the GRUB code so it doesn't echo the UUID of your disk.
No, it isn't bulletproof against physical access. But yes, I had the same question you did when starting out with coreboot and this was the solution I came up with.