IMX6 Reset Button
Program the reset button
That is exposed to linux as a GPIO key. You can see it in the device-tree here:
arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-cubox-i.dtsi
pinctrl_gpio_key: gpio-key { fsl,pins = < MX6QDL_PAD_EIM_DA8__GPIO3_IO08 0x17059 >; };
If you want you can customize this to look like a custom button. http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/gpio-keys.txt
Then you would need to write a userspace daemon to listen for the key event and then perform whatever action you wanted depending on the length it was held down for.