diff --git a/zmusic.changes b/zmusic.changes
index 755ac14..b02ebe6 100644
--- a/zmusic.changes
+++ b/zmusic.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jul  4 21:46:43 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Drop -msse/-msse2, CPUID guards do not help.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun 23 21:46:14 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/zmusic.spec b/zmusic.spec
index 10b70f8..03f1335 100644
--- a/zmusic.spec
+++ b/zmusic.spec
@@ -72,12 +72,6 @@ music component library.
 # There is handcrafted assembler, which LTO does not play nice with.
 %define _lto_cflags %nil
 
-%ifarch %ix86
-# Allow sw to use intrinsics (functions like _mm_set_sd).
-# Guarded by cpuid calls by sw.
-export CFLAGS="%optflags -msse -msse2"
-export CXXFLAGS="%optflags -msse -msse2"
-%endif
 %cmake -DNO_STRIP=1 \
 	-DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="" \
 	-DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="" -DCMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS="" \