That's one example of a high-level discovery method used by, for example, some Linux systems.  This low-level discovery method is used by early boot flow software and is used to populate implementation-specific information into the Device Tree (or ACPI) structure that is going to be passed to the OS.

In general, the nature of both low and high level discovery methods within the broad range of RISC-V-based systems is not the subject of this extension.  Architecting and/or standardizing those is the purview of other groups.  But insofar as it has been deemed necessary by various people that RVI develop a standard RISC-V low-level discovery method usable across a wide range of RISC-V systems, this extension provides the one needed ISA hook.

Greg