[asdfasgasdgasdg]

So the display driver is meant to be mutating memory also owned by the network controller, but not in a way that causes a crash, log messages, or a kernel panic? That doesn't seem so likely to me. I mean it's not impossible but it's rare to see memory corruption/interference cause a clean breakage like this. In my experience it usually causes things to become extremely funky for a short while, then a crash.

[amaterasu]

Every SoC I've dealt with containing a WiFi core has a dedicated coprocessor (RPU is a common name, depending on vendor) running its' own firmware. So more likely, _that_ core would go funky, then crash. The kernel might have code to recover that, but I doubt it, and it certainly would complain the whole way as you say.

[londons_explore]

In the Pi, the coprocessor is the GPU, and it is the first to initialize on boot and runs all the firmware-like stuff and handles all IO and does memory allocations/mappings.