diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/opencv/opencv_4.11.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/opencv/opencv_4.11.0.bb
index 0ce47ddf82..208d65725e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/opencv/opencv_4.11.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/opencv/opencv_4.11.0.bb
@@ -86,9 +86,6 @@ LDFLAGS:append:mips = " -Wl,--no-as-needed -latomic -Wl,--as-needed"
 LDFLAGS:append:riscv32 = " -Wl,--no-as-needed -latomic -Wl,--as-needed"
 
 EXTRA_OECMAKE:append:x86 = " -DX86=ON"
-# disable sse4.1 and sse4.2 to fix 32bit build failure
-# https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/21597
-EXTRA_OECMAKE:remove:x86 = " -DENABLE_SSE41=1 -DENABLE_SSE42=1"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gapi python3 eigen jpeg png tiff v4l libv4l gstreamer samples tbb gphoto2 \
     ${@bb.utils.contains_any('DISTRO_FEATURES', '${GTK3DISTROFEATURES}', 'gtk', '', d)} \